Kilotest: Violations of input has placeholder instead of name issue for International Consortium of Investigative Journalists newsletter subscribe page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.icij.org/newsletter/
• 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
• Download the full technical report (JSON)

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: 3
• Violators: 3

Violators

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

• Element 299

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="Enter a search term" class="search-form__field form-control" type="search" value="" name="q" id="q" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1211, y = 175, width = 252, height = 38
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 462

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: SIGN UP
  • Start tag: <input id="input-email" name="EMAIL" type="email" placeholder="Enter your email" class="form-control" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/div[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 897, y = 5290, width = 221, height = 38
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 258

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="Enter a search term" type="search" value="" name="q" id="q" class="search-form__field form-control" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[2]/div[1]/ul[3]/li[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?