Kilotest: Diagnoses of label location dubious violation by HTML element 299 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 11
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1641
  • Violators: 406
  • Issues: 53
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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 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
• Violations: 2
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="Enter a search term" class="search-form__field form-control" type="search" value="" name="q" id="q" style="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/input[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1211, y = 175, width = 252, height = 38
• Reported by QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the label location dubious issue for HTML element 299 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page.

1. [failed] The form field label is empty.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T17