Kilotest: Violations of input has placeholder instead of name issue for Wikimedia Foundation page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
• Tested 2 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 23:16 by job 261007T2305-8ye
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 1201
  • Violators: 392
  • Issues: 68
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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: 2
• Violators: 2

Violators

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

• Element 274

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <input class="wp-block-search__input" id="wp-block-search__input-6" placeholder="Search site" value="" type="search" name="s" required="" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/header[1]/div[1]/nav[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[5]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 357

  • Tag name: INPUT
  • Text: $
  • Start tag: <input type="number" name="preSelect" placeholder="2.75" value="2.75" min="1" step="any" required="" style="">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/main[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/fieldset[1]/div[1]/input[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 995, y = 590, width = 96, height = 48
  • Reported by Testaro
  • What diagnoses were reported?