| Title | Link text does not describe purpose of link |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a link text that does not describe the purpose of the link. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-10-25 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: a
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The a element
.
This test case is intended to fail because the text of the a element does not describe its purpose.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 51: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-link.
The text of the link does not help people understand the link target.
This test case maps to a possible failure of technique H30: Providing link text that describes the purpose of a link for anchor elements (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H30).