{"id":18285095,"date":"2025-02-04T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/accessibility-problem-improper-use-of-link\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:24:21","slug":"accessibility-problem-improper-use-of-link","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/accessibility-problem-improper-use-of-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility problems- Improper use of link, Keyboard nav"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a fix for these accessibilty problems? The language toggle violates accessibilty requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Improper use of link<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Language toggle cannot be used with keyboard navigation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Improper use of link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;a href=\"#\" class=\"trp-floater-ls-disabled-language trp-ls-disabled-language\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault()\"&gt;English&lt;\/a&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Accessibility Checker plugin explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About Improper Use of Link error<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Improper Use of Link error appears if you have links that are missing an&nbsp;<code>href<\/code>&nbsp;attribute or are only linked to a&nbsp;<code>#<\/code>, and do not have&nbsp;<code>role=\"button\"<\/code>&nbsp;on them. Links should be used to direct people to other parts of your site. Any other functionality that triggers an action should be a button. To resolve this error you need to recode the link to use a&nbsp;<code>&lt;button&gt;<\/code>&nbsp;tag (preferable) or add&nbsp;<code>role=\"button\"<\/code>&nbsp;to the existing&nbsp;<code>&lt;a&gt;<\/code>&nbsp;tag. If the element is a toggle button (such as an accordion), additional ARIA attributes are required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18285095","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18285095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18285095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18285095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}