Kilotest: Diagnoses of link indication poor violation by HTML element 491 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 491

• Tag name: A
• Text: RESEARCH
• Start tag: <a href="" class="pl-0 dropdown-toggle link--level-0" id="navbarDropdown-research-6" role="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/nav[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/ul[1]/li[5]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1513, y = 68, width = 81, height = 25

About the link indication poor issue

• Why it matters: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 1.3.3

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the link indication poor issue for HTML element 491 of the Portland State University page.

1. Element is not a list item but is not underlined

   Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)

   Rule: linkUl