Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 818 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Here is how tools diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 818 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page.

Basics

• About the link not named issue
  • Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding what a link points to
  • Priority: highest
  • Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
• About the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page
  • URL: https://www.icij.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:59
• About HTML element 818
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: WATCH: The Panama Papers at 10 live panel event … APR 02, 2026
  • Start tag: <a data-ga="Recent mti home|click|WATCH: The Panama Papers at 10 live panel event|1" href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/watch-the-panama-papers-at-10-live-panel-event/">
  • XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[8]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 772, y = 3986, width = 0, height = 0

Diagnoses

1. Links must have discernible text; Element does not have text that is visible to screen readers; aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty; aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty; Element has no title attribute

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: link-name

2. <p>This link is either a typo (e.g., a linked space character), or wrapped around something with no text alternative (an image with no alt attribute).</p> <p>Screen readers will either pause with an uninformative silence when they reach this link: <br>"Link, [...awkward pause where the link title should be...],"<br>or spell out the URL, character by character: <br>"Link, H-T-T-P-S forward-slash forward-slash example dot com"</p> <p><strong>To fix:</strong> add text if this should be a link, or delete it if it is a typo.</p>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: linkNoText

3. Hyperlink has no link text, label or image with a text alternative

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: a_text_purpose

4. [failed] The test target doesn't have an accessible name, or it's empty ('').

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R12