Gallery thumbnail linking straight to the full-size file role=link
Following this leaves the site for a bare image with no title and no way back. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
role=linkBug (ENG-1746): Access Engine test 141 (an A element's href must not point directly at an image file) scoped its candidate set to a[data-ae_ar='null'][data-ae_vis][data-ae_avat] — anchors with no ARIA role at all. Any role attribute took the anchor out of scope, including role="link", which does not change what the element is. Markup such as <a href="foo.jpeg" role="link">Testing this out</a> was silently skipped — a false negative.
Impact: Following such a link replaces the page with a bare image that has no accessible name, no page title and no way back other than the browser's back button. Those links went unreported whenever the anchor also spelled out role="link".
A elements without an ARIA-assigned role, or with role=link, not intentionally hidden in the DOM, available to assistive technologies, with a non-empty href.href ends in a known image extension — .gif .jpg .jpeg .bmp .png .tiff .eps .pcx, matched in lower and upper case.href containing a query string (viewer.html?foo=bob.png) or containing .htm (image.html/test.jpg), so viewer pages that merely name an image are left alone.role="button", role="img", …) remain out of scope — they are no longer being exposed as links..png.role="link" alongside href, hiding the problem from the test.data-ae_computed_role, the explicit-or-implicit ARIA role) instead of on the absence of a role:
a[data-ae_computed_role='link'][data-ae_vis][data-ae_avat]
href, and an A with an href and no other role already has the implicit role link — so the single computed-role selector covers everything the old data-ae_ar='null' selector did, plus an explicit role="link" in any letter case and role lists whose first valid token is link (role="foo link"). The per-extension selector list is now generated from the extension array rather than written out sixteen times.
role="button" and an image href other roleThe anchor is exposed as a button, not a link, so test 141 does not apply. Only role=link (or no role) is in scope. Should not be flagged.
role="img" and an image href other roleAn anchor exposed as an image is out of scope for this test, unchanged by ENG-1746. Should not be flagged.
role="link" hidden with display:none hidden(Anchor is present but hidden via display:none.)
Test 141 only evaluates elements that are not intentionally hidden: the selector requires [data-ae_vis]. Should not be flagged.
role="link" and aria-hidden="true" not exposedNot available to assistive technologies, so the selector's [data-ae_avat] requirement excludes it. Should not be flagged.
In scope, but the target is a page, not an image file. Should not be flagged.
role="link" pointing at a page role=linkNewly in scope after ENG-1746, and compliant. Should not be flagged.
role="link" naming an image in a query string query stringA viewer page that merely names an image is deliberately excluded — the selector rejects any href containing ?. Should not be flagged.
role="link" whose path contains .htm .htm pathThe :not([href*='.htm']) exclusion keeps page paths that end in an image-looking segment out of the result. Should not be flagged.
role="link" anchor with an href ending in .jpeg role=linkThe markup from ENG-1746. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
role="LINK" anchor with an href ending in .gif caseARIA role tokens are case-insensitive and the computed role is normalised to lower case. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
role="link" anchor with an upper case extension .PNG extension caseEach extension is matched in both letter cases, as attribute value matching is case sensitive. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
role="foo link" anchor with an image href token listBrowsers skip unknown tokens and use the first valid one, so this element is a link. The computed role resolves to link even though the recorded data-ae_ar is foo. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓. (Tests 37 and 412 also flag this element for the invalid foo token — expected and unrelated to test 141.)
href no roleThe original test 141 case: an A with an href and no role already has the implicit role link, so the computed-role selector still covers it. Must stay flagged ✓.
Following this leaves the site for a bare image with no title and no way back. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
.png role=linkA common documentation pattern where the image is the destination rather than the content of a page. Pre-fix: not flagged ❌. Post-fix: flagged ✓.
