per https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/#docconformance
It is NOT RECOMMENDED to use
aria-disabled="true"
on ana
element with anhref
attribute.NOTE If a link needs to be "disabled", remove the
href
attribute.
This PR removes the unnecessary href="#"
, tabindex="-1"
, and aria-disabled="true"
from disabled links in both docs pages and examples. aria-disabled="true"
is kept for disabled link-based buttons (that have role="button"
) as there it's appropriate to use (you want to convey to assistive technologies that this thing you're claiming is a button is also disabled at the moment)
Further, the PR extends the "Link functionality caveat" to show the "proper" way (removing href
and adding .disabled
class only) to disable a link, but then explains what to do if that's not possible (and then keeps an example with all the traditional href="#" tabindex="-1" aria-disabled="true"
, but explains clearly that it's not ideal). Same sort of explanation is also added to the pointer event utilities page
x-ref https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/34874#issuecomment-911769998