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Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:54 by job 261007T2132-muf
Summary of results:
- Rule engines:
  - Called: 12
  - Were able to test: 11
  - Reported any rule violations: 11
- Violations: 1641
- Violators: 406
- Issues: 53
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Issues reported

Highest priority: 18

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 9 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + Editoria11y + Html Checker + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
- Violations: 126
- Violators: 28
- Where was the issue found?
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 + Editoria11y + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
- Violations: 263
- Violators: 71
- 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 6 rule engines (Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y)
- Violations: 19
- Violators: 10
- 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 5 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + Pour + SureA11y)
- Violations: 75
- Violators: 30
- Where was the issue found?
control not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on how to operate a form item
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 3 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour)
- Violations: 5
- Violators: 4
- 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 + HTML CodeSniffer)
- Violations: 24
- Violators: 17
- 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: 97
- Violators: 97
- Where was the issue found?
image 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 2 rule engines (Editoria11y + QualWeb)
- Violations: 28
- Violators: 14
- Where was the issue found?
label not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a form item
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
label referent ineligible
- Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an item in a form
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
figure not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a figure
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 14
- Violators: 14
- Where was the issue found?
no role-required name
- Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an item
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Accessibility Checker)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
meta charset declared too late
- Why it matters: Browser may display incorrect text
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- 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)
- Violations: 14
- Violators: 14
- 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)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
heading image not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an image used as a heading
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
autocomplete missing
- Why it matters: User cannot get help entering personal information in a form
- Priority: highest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.5
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- 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: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?

High priority: 11

heading empty
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a part of the page
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 2.4.6
- Reported by 6 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + ASLint + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour)
- Violations: 6
- Violators: 2
- Where was the issue found?
group not named
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a group of form items
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 2 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + HTML CodeSniffer)
- Violations: 5
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
label empty
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topics of form items
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
tab-opening link action unstated
- Why it matters: Following a link opens a new window, surprising a user
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 3.2.5
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Editoria11y)
- Violations: 8
- Violators: 8
- 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)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- 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)
- Violations: 18
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
element closure invalid
- Why it matters: Page contains invalid code
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Html Checker)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
box size absolute
- Why it matters: User cannot enlarge the content of an item for readability
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.4
- Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
- Violations: 35
- Violators: 35
- 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: 28
- Violators: 28
- Where was the issue found?
input has placeholder instead of name
- Why it matters: User cannot get reliable help on what information to enter in a form item
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 3
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
element beyond display when focused
- Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot navigate properly to the operable items
- Priority: high
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.10
- Reported by 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?

Low priority: 8

legend missing
- Why it matters: User cannot get help on the topic of a group of form items
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
- Reported by 4 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + ASLint + HTML CodeSniffer + QualWeb)
- Violations: 11
- Violators: 3
- Where was the issue found?
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 + Pour)
- Violations: 60
- Violators: 30
- 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: 31
- Violators: 31
- 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: 20
- Violators: 18
- 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: 59
- Violators: 59
- 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: 4
- 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 1 rule engine (Testaro)
- Violations: 1
- 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: 101
- Violators: 101
- Where was the issue found?

Lowest priority: 16

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: 212
- Violators: 77
- 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: 7
- Violators: 6
- 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: 133
- Violators: 78
- 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: 97
- Violators: 97
- 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: 9
- Violators: 6
- Where was the issue found?
labeling risky
- Why it matters: User may misunderstand a form control
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.3.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- 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: 6
- Violators: 6
- Where was the issue found?
position sticky
- Why it matters: User may be unable to see needed content or may be forced to scroll in both dimensions
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.4.10
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 1
- Violators: 1
- Where was the issue found?
element referenced by multiple labels
- Why it matters: User cannot get reliable help on the topics of form items
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
- Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- 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: 5
- Violators: 5
- Where was the issue found?
label location dubious
- Why it matters: User may fail to notice the explanation of an item in a form
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.3.2
- Reported by 1 rule engine (QualWeb)
- Violations: 2
- Violators: 2
- 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: 77
- Violators: 77
- 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?
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: 6
- Violators: 6
- 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: 5
- Violators: 1
- 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: 8
- Violators: 8
- Where was the issue found?

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History

Issues reported

image not named

link not named

button not named

contrast poor

control not named

ID not unique

svg image not named

image link not named

label not named

label referent ineligible

figure not named

no role-required name

meta charset declared too late

attribute value invalid

attribute invalid

heading image not named

autocomplete missing

Tab-focusable elements wrong

heading empty

group not named

label empty

tab-opening link action unstated

code invalid

invalid CSS at-rule

element closure invalid

box size absolute

small targets too near to each other

input has placeholder instead of name

element beyond display when focused

legend missing

heading level skipped

heading structure illogical

font size absolute

line height low

links named identically

link indication poor

focus indication improvable

text contrast improvable

content beyond landmarks

tab-opening link action unstated?

target small

button name not visible

labeling risky

link destination not URL

position sticky

element referenced by multiple labels

text contrast not testable

label location dubious

all-capital text

large visible-element count

role assigned instead of implicit

inconsistent heading, link, or button styles

z-index not zero