Kilotest: Diagnoses of tabindex positive violation by HTML element 543 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: DIV
• Text: EMAIL … (REQUIRED)
• Start tag: <div class="ginput_container ginput_container_email">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 843, y = 2223, width = 392, height = 57
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the tabindex positive issue for HTML element 543 of the Center for Democracy and Technology contact page.

1. Positive <code>tabindex="3"</code> should not be used. Outside of very specific corner cases, a tabindex should not be given a positive integer value. Users who use keyboards to interact with the web expect a web document to be navigable in sequential order, starting at the top left (or right depending on language of the document) and going in order from there.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: positive_tabindex