Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 637 on New_Public page

Basics

About the New_Public page

• URL: https://newpublic.org/
• Tested 20 days ago by job 40e on 2026-05-13 at 05:28

About HTML element 637

• Tag name: A
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <a class="Social__link" target="_blank" href="https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 472, y = 6301, 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 637 of the New_Public 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. <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. 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

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

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: a_text_purpose

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

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R12