Smooth Scroll Fails to Move Keyboard Focus and Breaks Accessibility

  • Amber Hinds

    (@alh0319)


    10 months ago

    Hi Astra team,

    When smooth scroll is turned on in the theme, it visually scrolls the page but fails to shift the keyboard focus to the targeted area. This is a major accessibility problem that makes the “skip to content” links and any other jump links or anchor links on the site utterly unuseable for screen reader and keyboard-only users.

    Here’s a video I made that shows the current (incorrect) behavior and the expected behavior:

    I understand you do not monitor this support forum but am posting here for transparency. For anyone why wants to follow along, I also opened an issue on Astra’s GitHub repo.

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  • Herman Asrori (BSF)

    (@bsfherman)

    9 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hi @alh0319,

    Thanks for heads up and for your effort reporting on our GitHub. I can see one of our team members already responded to it. So, it’s in good hands!

    Kind regards,
    Herman 😊

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