Kilotest: Violations of input has placeholder instead of name issue for Animal Welfare Institute page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://awionline.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 19:15 by job 261007T1913-8n3
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 510
  • Violators: 220
  • Issues: 38
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About the issue

• 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: 1
• Violators: 1

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the input has placeholder instead of name issue.

• Element 242

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input type="search" id="header-search" class="search-overlay-field" placeholder="Search by keyword..." value="" name="s" autocomplete="off" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/form[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?