Kilotest: Diagnoses of tabindex positive violation by HTML element 537 on Center for Democracy and Technology contact page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://cdt.org/contact/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:47 by job 261007T1941-aey
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 742
  • Violators: 358
  • Issues: 45
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot predict the navigation sequence
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.3
• Reported by 3 rule engines (ASLint + Axe + Pour)
• Violations: 12
• Violators: 8

About the violator

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <input name="input_3" id="input_1_3" type="text" value="" class="large" tabindex="2" placeholder="Last Name" aria-required="true" aria-invalid="false" style="">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1114, y = 2150, width = 256, height = 57
• Reported by Axe + Pour

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the tabindex positive issue for HTML element 537 of the Center for Democracy and Technology contact page.

1. Elements should not have tabindex greater than zero; Element has a tabindex greater than 0

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: tabindex

2. Positive tabindex values disrupt the natural focus order

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: positive-tabindex