Kilotest: Diagnoses of meta charset declared too late violation by HTML element 0 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
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Browser may display incorrect text
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
• Violations: 1
• Violators: 1

About the violator

• Tag name: HTML
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <html class="js root-fade cssgradients placeholder inlinesvg generatedcontent cssanimations flexbox csstransforms backgroundblendmode objectfit object-fit cssclippathsvg cssclippathinset cssclippathcircle cssclippathellipse cssclippathpolygon js-no-scroll" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="opacity: 1; --hero-content-padding: 3rem; --nav-inner-bg: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); --hero-outer-padding-radius: 0rem; --hero-img-background-scale: 1; --nav-text-color: white; --nav-bg: rgba(255,255,255,0);">
• XPath: /html
• Bounding box: x = 0, y = 0, width = 1920, height = 1080
• Reported by Html Checker API

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the meta charset declared too late issue for HTML element 0 of the Open Secrets page.

1. A charset attribute on a meta element found after the first 1024 bytes.

   Rule engine: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)