RGAA 3.0 - Rule 6.3.3

Summary

This test consists in checking whether the text of each clickable area is enough explicit to understand the purpose and the target out of its context.

Business description

Criterion

6.3

Test

6.3.3

Description

Is each link text such as a clickable area (content of the alt attribute of an area tag) explicit out of context (except in particular cases)?

Level

AAA

Technical description

Scope

Page

Decision level

Semi-Decidable

Algorithm

Selection

Set1

All the <area> tags with a "href" attribute and a "alt" attribute (area[href][alt] )

Set2

All the elements of Set1 with a not empty "alt" attribute

Process

Test1

For each element of Set2, we check whether the link content doesn’t belong to the text link blacklist.

For each element returning false in Test1, raise a MessageA, raise a MessageB instead

Test2

For each element of Set2, we check whether the link content doesn’t only contain non alphanumeric characters

For each element returning false in Test2, raise a MessageA, raise a MessageB instead

  • code : UnexplicitLink
  • status: Failed
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes
  • code : CheckLinkWithoutContextPertinence
  • status: Need More Info
  • parameter : link text, "title" attribute, snippet
  • present in source : yes

Analysis

 Not Applicable

The page has no clickable area (Set1 is empty)

 Failed

At least one clickable area has an "alt" attribute content which is blacklisted or that only contains non alphanumerical characters (Test1 OR Test2 returns false for at least one element)

Pre-Qualified

In all other cases

TestCases

TestCases files for rule 6.3.3