# Lighthouse accessibility audit issues **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/lighthouse-accessibility-audit-issues/122612 **Category:** UX **Tags:** accessibility **Created:** [July 9, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lighthouse-accessibility-audit-issues/122612 "2019-07-09T23:46:40Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot) #### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lighthouse-accessibility-audit-issues/122612/4 "2019-07-11T03:15:23Z")
## Topics One issue (aside from contrast and the previously mentioned `li` non-issue) > **Links do not have a discernible name** > > > Link text (and alternate text for images, when used as links) that is discernible, unique, and focusable improves the navigation experience for screen reader users. [Learn more](https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/3.1/link-name?application=lighthouse). Two occurrences: 1. Each post gets an `a.tabLoc` element with no dimensions. These appear to be for navigating posts with the keyboard? Hidden with `aria-hidden: true` because they’re useless to screen readers. [Hide empty anchor tag from screen readers · discourse/discourse@bdaf07a · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bdaf07adcf807bfe1a20f0d427e94a66ac712433) 2. The envelope icon used to denote when a topic is a personal message also links to your PM inbox, and we were loading that link for all topics… even if they aren’t PMs. I made that link conditional to PMs, and also added a title attribute and aria-label. [Don't load PM icon in title unless topic is a PM · discourse/discourse@1983f0d · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1983f0d06e4163841f889962dfc2be04f0047b26) and [UX: Add title attribute and aria-label to PM icon link · discourse/discourse@aa71818 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/aa7181820c7be6989bdfe66f71f99b45774e8b7e) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lighthouse-accessibility-audit-issues/122612)._