a11y: make theme-switcher dropdown keyboard-accessible#541
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Convert href-less anchor dropdown items to buttons and add aria-haspopup to the toggle.
* ux: add navigation links to the 404 page Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * ux: add navigation links to the 404 page Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix SSI for 404 page * fix status code * fix page appearance --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Geoffrey Wu <geoffreywu1000@gmail.com>
Convert href-less anchor dropdown items to buttons and add aria-haspopup to the toggle.
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The theme-switcher dropdown items in
client/ssi/nav.htmlwere bare<a>elements with nohref, making them unreachable by keyboard navigation. This converts them to native buttons and correctly advertises the popup role to assistive technologies.Problem
In
client/ssi/nav.html, the Light / Night / Auto theme options were<a class="dropdown-item ...">elements with nohref. Without anhref, anchor elements are not in the tab order and cannot be activated with Enter or Space. Users navigating by keyboard or using assistive technologies could not change the site theme.Additionally, the
#bd-themetoggle button was missingaria-haspopup, so screen readers received no indication that activating it opens a menu.Changes
<a>elements to<button type="button" class="dropdown-item ...">, which are natively focusable and keyboard-operable.aria-haspopup="menu"to the#bd-themetoggle button.Risk & testing
Bootstrap's
querySelectorAll('[data-bs-theme-value]')selector and plainclicklisteners in the theme-switching script work identically on buttons and anchors, so there is no functional change. Visual appearance is unchanged — Bootstrap'sdropdown-itemstyles apply equally to<button>elements. Onlyclient/ssi/nav.htmlis modified.