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Primary action is clickable

operability.primary_action_in_dom
weight 2deterministicemerging

The page expresses its primary action as a real clickable element - a link with an href, a button, or a submit input - rather than as text painted into an image or onto a plain element. Passes as soon as one clickable element carries action language. Skips when the page asks the reader to do nothing. Fails only when the page clearly asks for an action and nothing clickable carries it.

Adoption of what this check tests is still climbing, so failing it is an opportunity rather than a defect. Remediation lists rank these after established fixes, and the weight moves only when measurement earns it.

Definition
Check ID
operability.primary_action_in_dom
Category
Actionability
Weight
2
Counts toward the score
Yes.
Evaluated by
A fixed rule with no threshold of our choosing. The same input always produces the same verdict.
Standard maturity
emerging
Canonical spec
None. This check has no published external specification — it is an AgentSpeed rule.
Introduced in
r2026.10.0
Retired in
Still active.
History
Every change to the instrument— including the versions that changed this check
Machine-readable
/rubric.json— this check, and every other, as data
How often this check is right

No rate published. Too few labelled cases to publish a rate: 1 flagged case (30 needed to publish), 1 defective case (30 needed to publish). The counts are the honest answer here. The matrix behind operability.primary_action_in_dom is 2 labelled cases — reported here rather than turned into a percentage that would read as more certain than the evidence is.

Corpus v1, measured under rubric r2026.11.0. Full method and every other check at /rubric/accuracy.

How to fix it
Express the call to action as a real `<a href>` or `<button>` carrying the words as text (or as an `aria-label`). An agent driving the page acts on the DOM: a call to action baked into an image is invisible to it, and `alt` text does not make an image clickable.
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