Kilotest: Diagnoses of heading-like styles dubious violation by HTML element 1249 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: User may be unable to understand the topic of a part of the page
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Axe)
• Violations: 8
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: P
• Text: Reports
• Start tag: <p class="dc-text-title-s">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/a[5]/p[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1005, y = 3189, width = 572, height = 24
• Reported by Axe

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the heading-like styles dubious issue for HTML element 1249 of the Open Secrets page.

1. Styled <p> elements must not be used as headings; Heading elements should be used instead of styled <p> elements

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: p-as-heading