Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 169 on Sightline Institute page

Here is how tools diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 169 of the Sightline Institute 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 Sightline Institute page
  • URL: https://www.sightline.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 04:04
• About HTML element 169
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: Donate … Newsletters
  • Start tag: <a class="gb-button gb-button-e9eaebab search-button" href="https://www.sightline.org/donate/">
  • XPath: /html/body/header[1]/div[1]/div[2]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1259, y = 23, width = 27, height = 44

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. Anchor element found with a valid href attribute, but no link content has been supplied.

   Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)

   Rule: E-WCAG2AAA.Principle4.Guideline4_1.4_1_2.H91.A.NoContent

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

5. Empty link

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: link_empty

6. Anchor element found with a valid href attribute, but no link content has been supplied.

   Tool: WallyAX (Wally)