Kilotest: Diagnoses of input has placeholder instead of name violation by HTML element 582 on Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/advanced
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 20:04 by job 261007T1941-ze6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1612
  • Violators: 670
  • Issues: 65
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get reliable help on what information to enter in a form item
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
• Violations: 7
• Violators: 7

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input id="dc-search-input-in-search-modal" type="text" class="search-input" placeholder="Search by company, client, firm, industry, or issue" value="" name="q" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[5]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Testaro

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the input has placeholder instead of name issue for HTML element 582 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. Element has a placeholder but no accessible name

   Rule engine: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: phOnly