Kilotest: Diagnoses of link not named violation by HTML element 575 on Hesperian Health Guides page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://hesperian.org/
• Tested 3 days ago on 2026-10-07 at 21:37 by job 261007T2129-2eu
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 11
  • Violations: 947
  • Violators: 295
  • Issues: 57
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About the issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding what a link points to
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
• Reported by 8 rule engines (Accessibility Checker + Alfa + Axe + HTML CodeSniffer + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y + WAVE)
• Violations: 32
• Violators: 6

About the violator

• Tag name: A
• Text: SOCIAL & CONTACT … hesperian@hesperian.org
• Start tag: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HesperianHealthGuides" traget="_blank">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[9]/div[1]/div[4]/section[1]/div[1]/a[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1497, y = 2539, width = 43, height = 15
• Reported by Accessibility Checker + Axe + Pour + QualWeb + SureA11y

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the link not named issue for HTML element 575 of the Hesperian Health Guides 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

   Rule engine: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: link-name

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

   Rule engine: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: a_text_purpose

3. Links must have an accessible name

   Rule engine: Pour (David Yarham and Geoffrey Crofte)

   Rule: link-name

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

   Rule engine: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-ACT-R12

5. This link has no accessible name.

   Rule engine: SureA11y (Jorge Rumoroso)

   Rule: link-name-present