Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 136 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 34 days ago by job ocb on 2026-04-28 at 16:47

About HTML element 136

• Tag name: A
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <a href="/search/">
• XPath: /html/body/header[1]/nav[1]/section[1]/ul[1]/li[6]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1869, y = 2, width = 35, height = 57

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

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 136 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

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