I did not know that href may be left out to let anchor elements behave as placeholders, thank you! I should definitely read the specs more instead of relying on tools' complaints (i.e. Lighthouse lead me to believe that missing the href attribute is invalid or inaccessible HTML).
Lighthouse is not really that good for accessibility testing, it misses a lot and throws up a fair few false positives. The a11y tool in Firefox is better, but better than both of those is the aXe tool, which is available as a plugin for all the major browsers.
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I did not know that
hrefmay be left out to let anchor elements behave as placeholders, thank you! I should definitely read the specs more instead of relying on tools' complaints (i.e. Lighthouse lead me to believe that missing thehrefattribute is invalid or inaccessible HTML).Lighthouse is not really that good for accessibility testing, it misses a lot and throws up a fair few false positives. The a11y tool in Firefox is better, but better than both of those is the aXe tool, which is available as a plugin for all the major browsers.