SEO Audit Failure: link.href.toLowerCase is not a function

[cmoss3]

Provide the steps to reproduce

1. Run LH on https://www.browardcriminalteam.com/

What is the current behavior?

The SEO portion of the audit is not passing, nor is it providing explanation.

Under the SEO portion of the audit results I see "Error!" in the top right corner.
When I hover over the text an error message is revealed: "Audit Error: link.href.toLowerCase is not a function"
Here is a snapshot for context: https://www.screencast.com/t/XESTDL0iW

Environment Information

• Affected Channels: DevTools
• Lighthouse version: 3.0.3
• Operating System: Windows 10

[patrickhulce]

Thanks very much for reporting @cmoss3! It's the links inside SVG that are throwing this one :)

[cmoss3]

@patrickhulce Thanks for looking into this! I guess I was assuming that if an aria-label attribute was available on the link, then that would be sufficient for links with images/graphics inside. Either way though, it definitely shouldn't be causing the SEO audit to fail. Thanks again!

[patrickhulce]

Agreed, definitely wasn't a commentary on the way it's setup! Just explaining why LH is barfing :)

This is actually a great point I'm not sure if search will use the aria-label if there's no text available...

@rviscomi do you know if search has a public position on this?

[rviscomi]

No I don't believe aria-label is used as a fallback to missing inner text.