Kilotest: Violations of select not named 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: User cannot get help on the topic of a list of options
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2
• Reported by 1 rule engine (HTML CodeSniffer)
• Violations: 1
• Violators: 1

Violators

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the select not named issue.

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• Element 563

  • Tag name: SELECT
  • Text: Site search … News
  • Start tag: <select class="dc-search__type_selector dc-text-label-s-medium" name="type">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[3]/div[5]/div[1]/form[1]/div[2]/select[1]
  • Bounding box: [not obtained]
  • Reported by HTML CodeSniffer
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