WCAG 4.1.2 · Level A
Aria Command Name
- What is broken
- An element acting as a button, link, or menu item has no accessible name.
- Who it affects
- Screen reader users hear an unlabelled control and cannot tell what it does without activating it to find out.
- How to fix it
- Give every element with role button, link, or menuitem a name.
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