Kilotest: Violations of forms not distinctly named issue for Human Rights Watch page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.hrw.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:44 by job 261007T2129-oiq
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 2187
  • Violators: 1149
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• 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: 3
• Violators: 3

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the forms not distinctly named issue.

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• Element 115

  • Tag name: FORM
  • Text: Search
  • Start tag: <form class="search-form" action="/sitesearch" method="get" id="search_form_1039513319" accept-charset="UTF-8">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1295, y = 24, width = 160, height = 32
  • Reported by Accessibility Checker
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 1732

  • Tag name: FORM
  • Text: Get updates on human rights around the world. … SUBSCRIBE
  • Start tag: <form class="follow__subscribe" action="/hrw-newsletter/subscribe" method="post">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[9]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/section[1]/form[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 280, y = 5351, width = 887, height = 166
  • Reported by Accessibility Checker
  • Take me there
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 2647

  • Tag name: FORM
  • Text: Sign Up
  • Start tag: <form id="footer-md-signup" action="/hrw-newsletter/subscribe" class="signup-form__form flex flex-wrap" method="post">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 360, y = 9133, width = 444, height = 34
  • Reported by Accessibility Checker
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