Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 A – Summary Elements Require Discernible Text

Summary elements are used as a control for expanding and collapsing the details element.

These summary elements must have a discernable text that clearly indicates the topic or purpose of the information that will be revealed when using the control.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

To populate this filter ‘Accessibility’ must be enabled via ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and ‘JavaScript rendering’ mode via ‘Config > Spider > Rendering’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Accessibility’ tab and ‘Summary Elements Require Discernible Text’ filter.

Use the lower ‘Accessibility Details’ tab to click on the issue on the left-hand side, and see details of the location on the page of the violation on the right-hand side.

Bulk export the pages and details of the accessibility violations via ‘Bulk Export > Accessibility > All Violations’.

What Triggers This Issue

Please view the Deque University website further reading link below for ruleset triggers.

How To Fix

Ensure summary elements have discernible text.