Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 225 on DemocracyNext page

Basics

About the DemocracyNext page

• URL: https://www.demnext.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job arb on 2026-05-03 at 17:03

About HTML element 225

• 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://open.spotify.com/show/1HIqSnucya51LYIQfPERqU" target="_blank">
• XPath: /html/body/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/a[4]
• Bounding box: x = 1530, y = 7730, width = 32, height = 32

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 225 of the DemocracyNext page.

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

5. Empty link

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: link_empty