Post · bonfire.cafe

On revisiting a codebase where I used

`href=" #main"`

instead of

`aria-current="true"`

…some thoughts.

I accept the user agent benefits of the latter but clicking the latter generates a page request (wasteful), whereas clicking the former does not (good).

Would it be bad to combine both?

#a11y

#main #a11y

James Edwards

@siblingpastry@mastodon.world · 7 months ago

@urlyman Is it wasteful? It wouldn't generate a remote request, so why does it matter?

You could intercept the click, supress its native action, then route it manually with location.hash and auto-scroll or something, then focusing the target. Seems a bit overkill though.

However that's probably not the right token for `aria-current` anyway -- how are you using it, what's the context of that link? This might answer both questions.