Kilotest: Diagnoses of parent invalid violation by HTML element 686 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 properly operate an item
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
• Violations: 6
• Violators: 6

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Redboxing: The loophole that lets campaigns tell super PACs exactly what to do … September 29, 2026
• Start tag: <a class="dc-news-item" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/09/redboxing-the-loophole-that-lets-campaigns-tell-super-pacs-exactly-what-to-do/">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[5]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[3]/ul[1]/a[3]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker API

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the parent invalid issue for HTML element 686 of the Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page.

1. Element a not allowed as child of element ul in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

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