Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 214 on DemocracyNext page

Here is how tools diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 214 of the DemocracyNext 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 DemocracyNext page
  • URL: https://www.demnext.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-10 at 16:47
• About HTML element 214
  • Tag name: A
  • Text: [not applicable]
  • Start tag: <a class="flex self-start h-[46px] w-[46px] items-center justify-center rounded-[46px] bg-gray-200 hover:bg-white transition-colors sm:h-8 sm:w-8 sm:rounded-[32px]" href="https://substack.com/profile/114936687-democracynext" target="_blank">
  • XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[1]
  • Bounding box: x = 1422, y = 7821, width = 32, height = 32

Diagnoses

1. <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

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