Kilotest: Diagnoses of legend missing violation by HTML element 451 on Center for Justice and Accountability Justice Circle page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://cja.org/justice-circle/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:58 by job 261007T1941-uf9
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 10
  • Violations: 602
  • Violators: 253
  • Issues: 59
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a group of form items
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 4 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb)
• Violations: 8
• Violators: 2

About the violator

• Tag name: FIELDSET
• Text: WHICH LEVEL ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING? … SECRETARY $250,000
• Start tag: <fieldset id="field_5_5" class="gfield gfield--type-checkbox gfield--type-choice field_sublabel_below gfield--no-description field_description_below field_validation_below gfield_visibility_visible gfield--choice-align-vertical">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 375, y = 3055, width = 1170, height = 283
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the legend missing issue for HTML element 451 of the Center for Justice and Accountability Justice Circle page.

1. Expected <code><legend></code> to be the first child of the <code><fieldset></code> element, but instead there is <code><span class="gfield_label"></span></code>

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: legend_first_child_of_fieldset

2. Fieldset does not contain a legend element. All fieldsets should contain a legend element that describes a description of the field group.

   Rule engine: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle1.Guideline1_3.1_3_1.H71.NoLegend

3. <fieldset> element does not have a <legend>

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: fieldset_legend_valid

4. [failed] The `fieldset` element is neither inside nor referencing a `form` element.

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T3