Kilotest: Violations of heading level skipped issue for Open Secrets page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:57 by job 261007T1941-pfb
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 2429
  • Violators: 1331
  • Issues: 75
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Helper misdescribes the page
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1
• Reported by 2 rule engines (Alfa + Html Checker API)
• Violations: 2
• Violators: 2

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the heading level skipped issue.

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• Element 574

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Top name searches … 5. bloomberg, michael
  • Start tag: <div class="dc-search-list">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[5]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by Alfa
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• Element 575

  • Tag name: H4
  • Text: Top name searches
  • Start tag: <h4 class="dc-search-list__headline">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[5]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/h4[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by Html Checker API
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