Kilotest: Diagnoses of tab-opening link action unstated?
violation by HTML element 864 on Deque page
Basics
About the Deque page
- URL: https://www.deque.com/
- Tested 23 days ago by job
7tzon 2026-05-09 at 16:37
About HTML element 864
- Tag name:
A - Text:
GitHub
- Start tag:
<a href="https://github.com/dequelabs/" target="_blank" class="text-deque-white text-body-base leading-4.5 mb-0 hover:bg-deque-orange-500 focus:bg-deque-orange-500 rounded-sm underline hover:-mx-1 hover:px-1 focus:-mx-1 focus:px-1"> - XPath:
/html/body/div[1]/footer[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/ul[1]/li[4]/a[1] - Bounding box: x = 1546, y = 7062, width = 53, height = 20
About the tab-opening link action unstated?
issue
- Why it matters: Following a link opens a new window, possibly surprising a user
- Priority: lowest
- Related WCAG standard: 3.2.5
Diagnoses
Here is how tools diagnose the tab-opening link action unstated?
issue for HTML element 864 of the Deque page.
- Check that this link's link text contains information indicating that the link will open in a new window.
Tool: HTML CodeSniffer (Squiz Labs)
Rule:
W-WCAG2AAA.Principle3.Guideline3_2.3_2_5.H83.3 - Link has a target=_blank attribute
Tool: Testaro (CVS Health)
Rule:
linkExt