Kilotest: Diagnoses of label location dubious violation by HTML element 1914 on Open Secrets page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job 261007T1941-pfb
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 2429
  • Violators: 1331
  • Issues: 75
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: User may fail to notice the explanation of an item in a form
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 3.3.2
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + QualWeb)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 3

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input class="MailChimp-input required email" type="email" value="" name="email" id="mce-EMAIL-footer" placeholder="Email address" autocomplete="home email" data-validate="email" aria-required="true" data-mailchimp-input="true" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1233, y = 8417, width = 257, height = 43
• Reported by QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the label location dubious issue for HTML element 1914 of the Open Secrets page.

1. [failed] The form field has incorrect positioned label.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T17