Kilotest: Diagnoses of link destination not URL violation by HTML element 518 on Portland State University page

Basics

About the Portland State University page

• URL: https://www.pdx.edu/
• Tested 24 days ago by job j3n on 2026-05-08 at 15:59

About HTML element 518

• Tag name: LI
• Text: ABOUT
• Start tag: <li class="nav-item dropdown text-left-lg-down p-2 pt-lg-0 pb-lg-0 pl-lg-0 nav-item--level-0">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/nav[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/ul[1]/li[6]
• Bounding box: x = 1634, y = 68, width = 72, height = 25

About the link destination not URL issue

• Why it matters: Helper cannot properly explain a link to a user
• Priority: lowest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the link destination not URL issue for HTML element 518 of the Portland State University page.

1. The URI <code>https://www.pdx.edu/</code> defined in anchor <code>href</code> attribute should not be used and may be misinterpreted by screen readers or the action may be unexpected. Providing an explanation about expected behaviour may help users to understand what follows.

   Tool: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: unclear_anchor_uri