Kilotest: Diagnoses of target empty violation by HTML element 254 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: Item is displayed improperly
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
• Violations: 44
• Violators: 44

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: Staff
• Start tag: <a href="https://cdt.org/staff/" class="anchor__link" target="" rel="" title="">
• XPath: [not obtained]
• Bounding box: x = 1402, y = 132, width = 35, height = 29
• Reported by Html Checker API

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Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the target empty issue for HTML element 254 of the Center for Democracy and Technology contact page.

1. Bad value for attribute target on element a: Browsing context name must be at least one character long.

   Rule engine: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)