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Make: Use a plain button to close the mobile sidebar - #1191
On Make sites using Breathe 2024, the control that closes the sidebar panel on small screens is a button nested inside an empty <a href="#"> link, and that link reuses the secondary-toggle ID of the Menu link in the welcome box. WAVE and other checkers report an empty link, and the page has two elements with the same ID. The Menu link itself is also a link to #, and its text is hidden at mobile widths, so it has no accessible name there.
Close control. The link-wrapped button in sidebar.php (and the identical copy in sidebar-handbook.php) becomes a single <button type="button" id="secondary-close"> with a translatable “Close menu” label. Because P2 Breathe’s breathe.js only binds #secondary-toggle, the theme’s existing footer script removes responsive-show when the button is clicked and returns focus to the opener. The button no longer floats: it sits on its own row at the end of the panel, so the first widget title does not wrap around it.
Open control. The Menu link in the welcome box becomes <button type="button" id="secondary-toggle"> with an “Open menu” label. It keeps its ID, so breathe.js still toggles the panel. It is now centered vertically in the welcome bar (it used to hang below the collapsed bar) and its icon lines up with the content edge.
Both buttons get a visible outline on keyboard focus and stay hidden on desktop.
The other items in the ticket are outside this theme: avatar alt text is tracked in Automattic/o2#240, the hosting logos and the Drive link are site content, and the contrast errors are false positives (see comment:1).
The menu icon sits at the start of the welcome bar, centered vertically, with the welcome box both shown and hidden.
Tap the menu icon. The sidebar slides in with the × button in its top end corner, above the first widget.
Tap ×. The sidebar closes. Keyboard: Tab to either button and press Enter or Space; each shows a dotted outline, and closing returns focus to the menu button.
View source: only one element has id="secondary-toggle", and neither control is a link or inside one.
At desktop width, neither button is shown.
I checked this against the live CLI page at 375px with the branch’s stylesheet and markup swapped in: menu button 48×48 centered in the 64px collapsed bar with its icon at the 20px content edge, close button 48×48 with an 8px inset from the panel’s top and end edges.
The handbook and standard sidebars now render a standalone secondary-close button. Clicking it removes responsive-show from the body and focuses secondary-toggle when that element exists. The stylesheet hides the button by default and styles it at the mobile breakpoint.
Changes: Secondary sidebar close control
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Define and handle the close control wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/sidebar-handbook.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/sidebar.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/functions.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/style.css
Both sidebar templates use a standalone secondary-close button. Its click handler removes responsive-show from the body and focuses secondary-toggle when present. The stylesheet hides the button by default and applies its layout and SVG styles at widths up to 876px.
On mobile pages without a welcome page, keyboard users can no longer open the sidebar. Provide an opener before merging.
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What changed in this PR
Updates the Breathe 2024 theme’s mobile sidebar close control from an invalid link-wrapped button to a standalone accessible button, removing the duplicate ID and preserving existing mobile behavior and layout.
Changes:
Replaces both sidebar close controls with translated standalone buttons.
Adds responsive styling to preserve placement and desktop visibility.
Adds JavaScript to close the sidebar by removing responsive-show.
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- Line 360: Update the sidebar close handler containing the responsive-show
class removal to return keyboard focus to the menu trigger when available, or
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The sidebar's close control was a button nested inside an empty link that
reused the `secondary-toggle` ID of the Menu link, so pages had two elements
with the same ID and an interactive element inside another. Accessibility
checkers flag both.
Replace it with a single button that has its own ID and a translatable label,
close the panel from the theme's footer script, and carry over the link's
mobile layout so the button renders where it did before.
Fixes #8061.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`#main #secondary-toggle` only ever matched the sidebar's close link, since
the welcome box's Menu link renders before `#main`. The close button now
carries those margins itself.
See #8061.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sidebar slides offscreen but stays focusable, so focus left on the
close button would let Tab walk through links nobody can see.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Major · Provide an opener when the welcome page is absent · sidebar.php:14
wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/sidebar.php:14 Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Provide an opener when the welcome page is absent
On mobile pages without a welcome page, the old off-screen link could open the sidebar when activated by keyboard. The replacement only closes it, so users can no longer open the sidebar.
Render a visible #secondary-toggle outside the sidebar when the welcome page is absent. Cover both sidebar templates.
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Review comment at @wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-breathe-2024/sidebar.php at line 14:
Update both sidebar templates to render a visible #secondary-toggle outside the sidebar when the welcome page is absent, so keyboard users can open it; retain the existing #secondary-close control for closing the sidebar.
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- Line 14: Update both sidebar templates to render a visible #secondary-toggle
outside the sidebar when the welcome page is absent, so keyboard users can open
it; retain the existing #secondary-close control for closing the sidebar.
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The Menu control in the welcome box was a link to "#" whose text is
hidden at mobile widths, leaving it without an accessible name. Make it
a labeled button, center it in the welcome bar, and line its icon up
with the content edge.
The close button no longer floats, so the first widget title does not
wrap around it. It sits on its own row at the end of the panel. Both
buttons get a visible keyboard focus outline.
See #8061.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Mythos 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8061
On Make sites using Breathe 2024, the control that closes the sidebar panel on small screens is a button nested inside an empty
<a href="#">link, and that link reuses thesecondary-toggleID of the Menu link in the welcome box. WAVE and other checkers report an empty link, and the page has two elements with the same ID. The Menu link itself is also a link to#, and its text is hidden at mobile widths, so it has no accessible name there.Close control. The link-wrapped button in
sidebar.php(and the identical copy insidebar-handbook.php) becomes a single<button type="button" id="secondary-close">with a translatable “Close menu” label. Because P2 Breathe’sbreathe.jsonly binds#secondary-toggle, the theme’s existing footer script removesresponsive-showwhen the button is clicked and returns focus to the opener. The button no longer floats: it sits on its own row at the end of the panel, so the first widget title does not wrap around it.Open control. The Menu link in the welcome box becomes
<button type="button" id="secondary-toggle">with an “Open menu” label. It keeps its ID, sobreathe.jsstill toggles the panel. It is now centered vertically in the welcome bar (it used to hang below the collapsed bar) and its icon lines up with the content edge.Both buttons get a visible outline on keyboard focus and stay hidden on desktop.
The other items in the ticket are outside this theme: avatar alt text is tracked in Automattic/o2#240, the hosting logos and the Drive link are site content, and the contrast errors are false positives (see comment:1).
Testing
id="secondary-toggle", and neither control is a link or inside one.I checked this against the live CLI page at 375px with the branch’s stylesheet and markup swapped in: menu button 48×48 centered in the 64px collapsed bar with its icon at the 20px content edge, close button 48×48 with an 8px inset from the panel’s top and end edges.
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