useAnchorContent (since v1.0.0)
Diagnostic Category: lint/a11y/useAnchorContent
Source: anchor-has-content
Enforce that anchors have content and that the content is accessible to screen readers.
Accessible means the content is not hidden using the aria-hidden attribute.
Refer to the references to learn about why this is important.
Examples
Section titled ExamplesInvalid
Section titled Invalid<a />a11y/useAnchorContent.js:1:1 lint/a11y/useAnchorContent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Provide screen reader accessible content when using `a` elements.
> 1 │ <a />
│ ^^^^^
2 │
ℹ All links on a page should have content that is accessible to screen readers.
ℹ Accessible content refers to digital content that is designed and structured in a way that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access, understand, and interact with using assistive technologies.
ℹ Follow these links for more information,
WCAG 2.4.4
WCAG 4.1.2
<a></a>a11y/useAnchorContent.js:1:1 lint/a11y/useAnchorContent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Provide screen reader accessible content when using `a` elements.
> 1 │ <a></a>
│ ^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ All links on a page should have content that is accessible to screen readers.
ℹ Accessible content refers to digital content that is designed and structured in a way that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access, understand, and interact with using assistive technologies.
ℹ Follow these links for more information,
WCAG 2.4.4
WCAG 4.1.2
<a> </a>a11y/useAnchorContent.js:1:1 lint/a11y/useAnchorContent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Provide screen reader accessible content when using `a` elements.
> 1 │ <a> </a>
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ All links on a page should have content that is accessible to screen readers.
ℹ Accessible content refers to digital content that is designed and structured in a way that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access, understand, and interact with using assistive technologies.
ℹ Follow these links for more information,
WCAG 2.4.4
WCAG 4.1.2
<a aria-hidden>content</a>a11y/useAnchorContent.js:1:1 lint/a11y/useAnchorContent FIXABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Provide screen reader accessible content when using `a` elements.
> 1 │ <a aria-hidden>content</a>
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ All links on a page should have content that is accessible to screen readers.
ℹ Accessible content refers to digital content that is designed and structured in a way that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access, understand, and interact with using assistive technologies.
ℹ Follow these links for more information,
WCAG 2.4.4
WCAG 4.1.2
ℹ Unsafe fix: Remove the aria-hidden attribute to allow the anchor element and its content visible to assistive technologies.
1 │ <a·aria-hidden>content</a>
│ -----------
<a><span aria-hidden="true">content</span></a>a11y/useAnchorContent.js:1:1 lint/a11y/useAnchorContent ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✖ Provide screen reader accessible content when using `a` elements.
> 1 │ <a><span aria-hidden="true">content</span></a>
│ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2 │
ℹ All links on a page should have content that is accessible to screen readers.
ℹ Accessible content refers to digital content that is designed and structured in a way that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access, understand, and interact with using assistive technologies.
ℹ Follow these links for more information,
WCAG 2.4.4
WCAG 4.1.2
Valid
Section titled Valid<a>content</a>function html() { return { __html: "foo" }}<a dangerouslySetInnerHTML={html()} /><a><TextWrapper aria-hidden={true} />content</a><a><div aria-hidden="true"></div>content</a>