Kilotest: Violations of aria reference invalid issue for Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://freedom.press/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:40 by job 261007T2129-eze
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 377
  • Violators: 189
  • Issues: 43
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Item behavior violates user expectations
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 1 rule engine (WAVE)
• Violations: 3
• Violators: 3

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the aria reference invalid issue.

• Element 216

  • Tag name: BUTTON
  • Text: Our Team
  • Start tag: <button class="nav-item-control" id="control-43" aria-controls="inner-menu-43" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="nav-link-43">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/button[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by WAVE
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 233

  • Tag name: BUTTON
  • Text: Transparency
  • Start tag: <button class="nav-item-control" id="control-44" aria-controls="inner-menu-44" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="nav-link-44">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[3]/div[1]/button[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by WAVE
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 250

  • Tag name: BUTTON
  • Text: Get in Touch
  • Start tag: <button class="nav-item-control" id="control-45" aria-controls="inner-menu-45" aria-expanded="false" aria-labelledby="nav-link-45">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/nav[2]/ul[1]/li[2]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[4]/div[1]/button[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by WAVE
  • What diagnoses were reported?