Kilotest: Diagnoses of form submission button missing violation by HTML element 1628 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
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot easily submit a form
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 3.2.2
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + QualWeb)
• Violations: 6
• Violators: 6

About the violator

• Tag name: FORM
• Text: Do not fill this out if you are a person … Subscribe
• Start tag: <form data-remote="true" data-mailchimp-form="true" class="MailChimp-form u-form js-validate " id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form-footer" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form-footer" novalidate="">
• XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[9]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/form[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1211, y = 6146, width = 359, height = 43
• Reported by QualWeb

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the form submission button missing issue for HTML element 1628 of the Open Secrets page.

1. [failed] Form tag doesn't contain any of the following elements input[type~='submit image'], button[type='submit'].

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T19