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QA finding

A phone number on the page is not a tel link

QA Warning Severity: Low

Part of the audit Usability rules. Finding id: qa.phoneNotTappable.

What it costs you

On a phone a visitor has to copy or retype the number to call it. Safari on iPhone may still guess that it is a number; other browsers do not make it a link.

What to do

Wrap the number in a link with a tel: address in international format.

What it checks

  • Phone number cannot be tapped to call

How to fix it

Fix

    Thresholds

    Thresholds for A phone number on the page is not a tel link
    NameDefaultMeaning
    min_digits8The last this many digits of the number must appear in a tel: link on the same page. Shorter numbers are left out. A starting value: it lets a link written in the national format match a number stored in international format.
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