Kilotest: Diagnoses of select element invalid violation by HTML element 1093 on Mozilla Foundation join us page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/join-us/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-l0b
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1762
  • Violators: 211
  • Issues: 46
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot properly select among options
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 3

About the violator

• Tag name: OPTION
• Text: English
• Start tag: <option value="en">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]
• Reported by Html Checker

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the select element invalid issue for HTML element 1093 of the Mozilla Foundation join us page.

1. The first option element in a select element with a required attribute, and without a multiple attribute, and without a size attribute whose value is greater than 1, must have either an empty value attribute, or must have no text content. Consider either adding a placeholder option label, or adding a size attribute with a value equal to the number of option elements.

   Rule engine: Html Checker (World Wide Web Consortium)