fix accessibility bug 2605237 a11y aria required children#3598
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Bug: 2605237 - aria-required-children violation on ul[role=tablist] Root cause: TopNav.tsx used role='tablist' on the <ul>, role='none presentation' on each <li>, and aria-owns to reference inner <a role='tab'> elements. This pattern is broken because: - role='none' is not honored when a descendant is focusable (<a href>) - axe-core 4.10.2 flags li[tabindex] as 'children not allowed' in tablist - aria-owns is redundant when elements are already DOM descendants - The IDs (tab1-tab6) are not referenced by any JavaScript Fix: Remove role='tablist', aria-owns, aria-busy, role='none presentation', and role='tab'. The <nav aria-label='top menu'> wrapper already provides correct semantics. Gatsby's Link sets aria-current='page' on the active item. Affects ALL pages (homepage, playground, docs, etc.) since TopNav is global. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Same broken pattern as TopNav: ul.editor-tabs used role='tablist' with li[role='none presentation'] wrappers around a[role='tab'] elements. role='none' is ignored by axe when descendants are focusable (<a href>), so the li children were flagged as not allowed in a tablist. Fix: give <li> elements role='tab' + aria-selected + tabIndex directly, removing the inner <a> wrappers and the redundant aria-owns/aria-busy. Update CSS to apply color/cursor directly to li instead of li > a. This clears the aria-required-children axe violation on the homepage, confirmed by axe-core 4.x programmatic FastPass check. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Fixes https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/2605237