Kilotest: Issues reported for Hesperian Health Guides

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URL: https://hesperian.org/
Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:37 by job 261007T2129-2eu
Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
  - Called: 12
  - Were able to test: 12
  - Reported any rule violations: 11
- Violations: 947
- Violators: 295
- Issues: 57
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History

134 days ago (oldest)
44 days ago
2 days ago (latest; this report)

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Issues reported

Highest priority: 13

link not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding what a link points to
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
- Reported by 8 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y + WAVE)
- Violations: 32
- Violators: 6
- Where was the issue found?
contrast poor
- Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
- Reported by 7 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + SureA11y + WAVE)
- Violations: 38
- Violators: 10
- Where was the issue found?
ID not unique
- Why it matters: User may be pointed to the wrong item
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 3 rule engines (ASLint + Html Checker API + HTML CodeSniffer)
- Violations: 44
- Violators: 14
- Where was the issue found?
svg image not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an image
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + ASLint)
- Violations: 10
- Violators: 10
- Where was the issue found?
button not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help explaining a button
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 2 rule engines (HTML CodeSniffer + WAVE)
- Violations: 6
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
dialog not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help explaining a pop-up window
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
invalid landmark child of navigation role
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on how some of the page is organized
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.6
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 27
- Violators: 5
- Where was the issue found?
attribute invalid
- Why it matters: Item behaves improperly
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 12
- Violators: 12
- Where was the issue found?
attribute value invalid
- Why it matters: Item behaves improperly
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
parent missing
- Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot operate a custom tool
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 10
- Violators: 10
- Where was the issue found?
list child invalid
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on which items are in a list
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (SureA11y)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
Tab-focusable elements wrong
- Why it matters: Item selections by a keyboard-only user are useless or impossible
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 2.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
image not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help to know what is in an image
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (WAVE)
- Violations: 5
- Violators: 5
- Where was the issue found?

High priority: 10

landmarks not distinctly named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on how some of the page is organized
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.6
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Axe + Pour)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
control child of link or button
- Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 2.5.5
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Pour + SureA11y)
- Violations: 22
- Violators: 11
- Where was the issue found?
navigations not distinctly named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on how some of the page is organized
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.6
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
h1 not 1st heading
- Why it matters: User cannot understand the topic of the page
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Alfa)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
CSS invalid
- Why it matters: Page cannot be properly displayed
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 4
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
code invalid
- Why it matters: Invalid code in the page may prevent a helper from working
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 51
- Violators: 4
- Where was the issue found?
invalid CSS at-rule
- Why it matters: Page cannot be properly displayed in particular contexts
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker API)
- Violations: 8
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
element obsolete
- Why it matters: Page includes obsolete code that the browser may fail to process
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
small targets too near to each other
- Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 2.5.8
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
element focusability and operability conflict
- Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot operate an item
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 2.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 13
- Violators: 13
- Where was the issue found?

Low priority: 12

heading level skipped
- Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 4 rule engines (Alfa + Axe + Html Checker API + Pour)
- Violations: 8
- Violators: 4
- Where was the issue found?
not exactly 1 h1 heading
- Why it matters: User cannot understand the topic of the page
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 3 rule engines (ASLint + Axe + Pour)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
link indication poor
- Why it matters: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.3
- Reported by 3 rule engines (Axe + SureA11y + Testaro)
- Violations: 20
- Violators: 18
- Where was the issue found?
heading structure illogical
- Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer)
- Violations: 8
- Violators: 7
- Where was the issue found?
font size absolute
- Why it matters: User cannot adjust the text size for readability
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Alfa)
- Violations: 7
- Violators: 5
- Where was the issue found?
line height absolute
- Why it matters: User cannot adjust the line height of text for readability
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.12
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Alfa)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
line height low
- Why it matters: Text is difficult to read
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.8
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 13
- Violators: 13
- Where was the issue found?
links named identically
- Why it matters: User cannot get help differentiating links
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
semantic properties represented with styles
- Why it matters: User cannot get help to fully understand the text
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
page content moves spontaneously
- Why it matters: Motion-sensitive user may suffer harm
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 2.2.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
duplicate attribute
- Why it matters: Browser processes the page improperly
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 44
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
focus indication improvable
- Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot easily choose an item to operate
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 2.4.7
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 47
- Violators: 47
- Where was the issue found?

Lowest priority: 22

text contrast improvable
- Why it matters: Content is not easy to understand
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.6
- Reported by 7 rule engines (Alfa + ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
- Violations: 72
- Violators: 39
- Where was the issue found?
content beyond landmarks
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on how some of the page is organized
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.6
- Reported by 4 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + Pour)
- Violations: 138
- Violators: 73
- Where was the issue found?
tab-opening link action unstated?
- Why it matters: Following a link opens a new window, possibly surprising a user
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.2.5
- Reported by 3 rule engines (ASLint + Pour + Testaro)
- Violations: 9
- Violators: 6
- Where was the issue found?
role redundant
- Why it matters: Page includes unnecessary code
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Pour)
- Violations: 8
- Violators: 5
- Where was the issue found?
target small
- Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 2.5.5
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Alfa + Pour)
- Violations: 27
- Violators: 27
- Where was the issue found?
no option focusable
- Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot choose an option
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 2.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
false aria-hidden value risky
- Why it matters: User may be misled by erroneously hidden or revealed page content
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
button name not visible
- Why it matters: User cannot get help explaining a button
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
title attribute empty
- Why it matters: Hovering does not get the promised explanation of an item
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 23
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
link destination not URL
- Why it matters: Helper cannot properly explain a link to a user
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
aria attribute redundant
- Why it matters: Page includes unnecessary code
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Pour)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
tabindex redundant
- Why it matters: Revision risks interfering with navigation by a keyboard-only user
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Pour)
- Violations: 6
- Violators: 6
- Where was the issue found?
text contrast not testable
- Why it matters: Text may be difficult to read
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
- Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
- Violations: 7
- Violators: 7
- Where was the issue found?
all-capital text
- Why it matters: Text is difficult to read
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.1.5
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
all-italic text
- Why it matters: Text is difficult to read
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.1.5
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
large visible-element count
- Why it matters: User cannot easily find items in the page
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 2.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
text distortion
- Why it matters: Text is difficult to read
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.1.5
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 11
- Violators: 11
- Where was the issue found?
double br use dubious
- Why it matters: User may be unable to get help to fully understand the text
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
role assigned instead of implicit
- Why it matters: User may misunderstand the purpose of an item
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 7
- Violators: 7
- Where was the issue found?
inconsistent heading, link, or button styles
- Why it matters: User cannot easily distinguish items of different types
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.2.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 4
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
title attribute invalid
- Why it matters: User gets too little, too much, or repeated help explaining an item
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 70
- Violators: 70
- Where was the issue found?
z-index not zero
- Why it matters: User cannot predict the effect of clicking
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 96
- Violators: 96
- Where was the issue found?

Kilotest: Issues reported for Hesperian Health Guides

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Issues reported

link not named

contrast poor

ID not unique

svg image not named

button not named

dialog not named

invalid landmark child of navigation role

attribute invalid

attribute value invalid

parent missing

list child invalid

Tab-focusable elements wrong

image not named

landmarks not distinctly named

control child of link or button

navigations not distinctly named

h1 not 1st heading

CSS invalid

code invalid

invalid CSS at-rule

element obsolete

small targets too near to each other

element focusability and operability conflict

heading level skipped

not exactly 1 h1 heading

link indication poor

heading structure illogical

font size absolute

line height absolute

line height low

links named identically

semantic properties represented with styles

page content moves spontaneously

duplicate attribute

focus indication improvable

text contrast improvable

content beyond landmarks

tab-opening link action unstated?

role redundant

target small

no option focusable

false aria-hidden value risky

button name not visible

title attribute empty

link destination not URL

aria attribute redundant

tabindex redundant

text contrast not testable

all-capital text

all-italic text

large visible-element count

text distortion

double br use dubious

role assigned instead of implicit

inconsistent heading, link, or button styles

title attribute invalid

z-index not zero