Kilotest: Violations of no default option issue for Center for Responsive Politics advanced donor lookup page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/advanced
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 20:04 by job 261007T1941-ze6
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 1612
  • Violators: 670
  • Issues: 65
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User may risk erroneously submitting a form
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 1 rule engine (ASLint)
• Violations: 5
• Violators: 5

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the no default option issue.

• Element 586

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: Filter by … Go
  • Start tag: <div class="dc-search-type-selector__container">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[4]/div[5]/div[1]/form[1]/div[2]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by ASLint
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 736

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: All Cycles
  • Start tag: <div class="js-customSelect DonorLookupSplash-form-select -block -dark js-init u-fadeIn">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 625, y = 658, width = 305, height = 60
  • Reported by ASLint
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 780

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: All States
  • Start tag: <div class="js-customSelect DonorLookupSplash-form-select -block -dark js-init u-fadeIn">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 990, y = 658, width = 305, height = 60
  • Reported by ASLint
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 904

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: All Jurisdictions
  • Start tag: <div class="js-customSelect DonorLookupSplash-form-select -block -dark js-init u-fadeIn">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[2]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 625, y = 1150, width = 670, height = 60
  • Reported by ASLint
  • What diagnoses were reported?

• Element 1028

  • Tag name: DIV
  • Text: All recipient types
  • Start tag: <div class="js-customSelect DonorLookupSplash-form-select -block -dark js-init u-fadeIn">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/form[1]/div[3]/div[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 625, y = 1397, width = 670, height = 60
  • Reported by ASLint
  • What diagnoses were reported?