Kilotest: Diagnoses of control child of link or button violation by HTML element 253 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the Hesperian Health Guides page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 5 days ago by job cp5 on 2026-08-26 at 20:16

About HTML element 253

• Tag name: A
• Text: APPS
• Start tag: <a href="https://hesperian.org/mobile-apps" itemprop="url" tabindex="0">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[3]/nav[1]/div[1]/ul[1]/li[10]/a[1]
• Bounding box: [not obtained]

About the control child of link or button issue

• Why it matters: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap
• Priority: high
• Related WCAG standard: 2.5.5

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the control child of link or button issue for HTML element 253 of the Hesperian Health Guides page.

1. The element a with the attribute href should not appear as a descendant of an element with the attribute role=menuitem.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)

2. The element a should not appear as a descendant of an element with the attribute role=menuitem.

   Tool: Html Checker API (World Wide Web Consortium)