Success Criterion 2.4.4
Conformance level A

Card Component Link With No Accessible Name of Its Own

2.4.4 — Link Purpose (In Context)

Scenario

Setting

A community forum's discussion thread

What’s wrong

Card patterns where the clickable area's name is empty and the visible title is a sibling not referenced.

Example

<a href="/report.pdf">Click here</a>

Why it matters

People who browse by links list or voice commands and need unambiguous link purposes.

How to test

Inspect a clickable card component in DevTools: if the wrapping link/element has no accessible name and the visible title is a sibling not referenced by it, it fails.

How to fix

The link's purpose must be clear from its accessible name (or name plus immediate programmatic context), and unique among links going to different destinations.

<a href="/report.pdf">Download the Q3 financial report (PDF)</a>

Link text needs to describe its destination on its own, without relying on surrounding sentence context.

Outcome

On a community forum's discussion thread, this barrier is gone for people who browse by links list or voice commands and need unambiguous link purposes — they reach the same outcome without extra effort.

Who is affected