Kilotest: Diagnoses of adjacent links not combined violation by HTML element 299 on DemocracyNext page

Basics

About the page

• URL: https://www.demnext.org/
• Tested 7 days ago on 2026-10-03 at 04:01 by job 261003T0358-706
• Summary of results:
  • Rule engines:
    • Called: 12
    • Were able to test: 12
    • Reported any rule violations: 12
  • Violations: 791
  • Violators: 223
  • Issues: 36
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About the issue

• Why it matters: Keyboard-only user expends extra effort to skip a link
• Priority: low
• Related WCAG standard: 2.4.4
• Reported by 2 rule engines (ASLint + QualWeb)
• Violations: 16
• Violators: 16

About the violator

• Tag name: DIV
• Text: Five Dimensions of Scaling Democratic Deliberation: With and Beyond AI
• Start tag: <div class="h-full rounded-3xl sm:rounded-[40px] bg-coral hover:bg-coral-700 transition-colors">
• XPath: /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/div[8]/div[1]/div[1]
• Bounding box: x = 1326, y = 2535, width = 354, height = 570
• Reported by ASLint

Diagnoses

Here is how rule engines diagnose the adjacent links not combined issue for HTML element 299 of the DemocracyNext page.

1. <code><img></code> element inside a link has empty or missing alt text when a link beside it contains link text. Consider combining the links.

   Rule engine: ASLint (eSSENTIAL Accessibility)

   Rule: img_adjacent_duplicate_text_link