Accessibility bug on kb landing page
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The landing page for the knowledge base has an accessibility bug because the category open close < a > tags are missing an href attribute. The missing href attribute causes the tab key to skip over category links making it impossible to use the knowledge base with your keyboard.
To fix this line 208 of class-epkb-layout-basic.php should read:
><?php echo $category_name; ?>
Once the link is valid html, the browser will react to clicks on it, which we don’t want. So, we also need to add:
return false;
To the click event in public-scripts.js on line 240 to prevent the browser from refreshing the page on click.
Please let me know if you’d like a Pull Request with this fix on Github, or a patch file to make it easier for you. Happy to help!
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Hi Greg,
Thank you very much for catching this. What a silly mistake, we really appreciate the help and especially for accessibility reasons.We will be working on the fix for the issue you reported for the next release,
We will change it from the “a” tag to a “span” tag as it’s not really a link anyways, and then there is no browser issue as well.
We would love to continue this conversation on our support system as it provides more tools for us.Would you mind contacting us on our support form, if you discover further accessibility issues?
https://www.echoknowledgebase.com/contact-us/
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