Test Case sc2.4.8_l3_002: Link text describes purpose of link

Formal Metadata

Formal Metadata
Title	Link text describes purpose of link
Description	A document with a link text that describes the purpose of the link.
Creator	BenToWeb (evlach@…)
Rights	Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007
Language	English
Date	2006-10-25
Status	accepted QA

Technologies and Features

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 .

Test Data

Purpose

This test case is intended to pass because the text of the a element describes its purpose.

Test Modes

Accessibility expert.

Test Files

Test file.

TCDL Data

sc2.4.8_l3_002 (XML).

Rules

“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.

Primary Rules

The test case passes (line 9, column 69) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#navigation-mechanisms-link.

Functional Outcome

The text of the link helps people understand the link target.

Technical Comment

This test case maps to 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).