Lighthouse accessibility audit issues

UX
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One issue (aside from contrast and the previously mentioned li non-issue)

Links do not have a discernible name

Link text (and alternate text for images, when used as links) that is discernible, unique, and focusable improves the navigation experience for screen reader users. Learn more.

Two occurrences:

  1. Each post gets an a.tabLoc element with no dimensions. These appear to be for navigating posts with the keyboard? Hidden with aria-hidden: true because they’re useless to screen readers. Hide empty anchor tag from screen readers · discourse/discourse@bdaf07a · GitHub

  2. The envelope icon used to denote when a topic is a personal message also links to your PM inbox, and we were loading that link for all topics… even if they aren’t PMs. I made that link conditional to PMs, and also added a title attribute and aria-label. Don't load PM icon in title unless topic is a PM · discourse/discourse@1983f0d · GitHub and UX: Add title attribute and aria-label to PM icon link · discourse/discourse@aa71818 · GitHub

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