False positive: Angular hasbang links are being treated as in-page anchor links

[ackleyk]

The new aXe plugin for Chrome displays a violation that says “the skip-link target should exist and be focusable” for any Angular links with a hashbang. I am proposing that Angular hashbang links should be excluded.

The false positive can be tested on the Angular bootstrap page:
https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/getting-started

Element source
ng-bootstrap

Issue description
Ensure all skip links have a focusable target

Note: this issue occurs within HTML_CodeSniffer as well and it is one of the main reasons our team moved away from CodeSniffer and started using aXe.

[WilcoFiers]

Fair point. Thanks for reporting!

[englishextra]

@WilcoFiers And...?

How am I gonna deal with that?

It's not only Angular - it's a hashrouting thing.
having a href = #/home can aXe be able to recognize that as routing stuff and not bookmark of existing block in the markup?

It's not only hashbang - it can be hashslash.

Thanks

[WilcoFiers]

@englishextra Both have been addressed. We're finishing up a few more things for a new release. Should be out within the next week or two.

[englishextra]

@WilcoFiers Very nice thanks

[ackleyk]

Thank you for fixing this issue so quickly!