Kilotest: Violations of focusable element hidden issue for Freedom House page

Here are the HTML elements reported to violate rules belonging to the focusable element hidden issue.

Basics

About the focusable element hidden issue

Why it matters: Keyboard-only user cannot navigate properly to the operable items

Priority: highest

Related WCAG standard: 4.1.2

Violator count: 7

Reported by 4 tools (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + ASLint + Axe)

About the Freedom House page

URL: https://freedomhouse.org/

Tested by job xi6 on 2026-04-02 at 14:24

Violators

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1. Element 110

   • Take me there
   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: Just Released: Freedom in the World 2026 … Freedom House is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in the US under EIN: 13-1656647.
   • Reported by Alfa
   • What diagnoses were reported?

2. Element 236

   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: Expanding and Defending Freedom Around the World … Caption
   • Reported by Alfa
   • What diagnoses were reported?

3. Element 253

   • Take me there
   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: Caption
   • Reported by Axe
   • What diagnoses were reported?

4. Element 255

   • Take me there
   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/button[1]
   • Tag name: BUTTON
   • Text: Caption
   • Reported by Accessibility Checker
   • What diagnoses were reported?

5. Element 455

   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[5]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: Q&A: Persecuted for Her Work in Turkey, Journalist Sofya Alagaş Won’t Be Silenced … April 2, 2026
   • Reported by ASLint
   • What diagnoses were reported?

6. Element 475

   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[5]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: Iran’s Internet Blackout and the Authoritarian Playbook … March 23, 2026
   • Reported by ASLint
   • What diagnoses were reported?

7. Element 495

   • XPath: /html/body/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[5]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]
   • Tag name: DIV
   • Text: After 20 Years of Global Decline, These Basic Freedoms Have Been Hit Hardest … March 19, 2026
   • Reported by ASLint
   • What diagnoses were reported?