Code directory links in left nav pane are not true links / not right-clickable

[alexscott-ff]

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The directories and files in the file tree view are div or span elements instead of true links, so right clicking doesn't work as expected. It would be very nice if they were actual links (and likely more accessible too).

I actually just realized cmd + click (mac) does indeed open a new window, but you can't right click to open a new window with the link.

[LiteBrite82]

Hi @alexscott-ff

This is great feedback! Im going to move this over to Accessibility, it sounds more like their kind of thing (though it isn't totally out of place in CS&N).

[cehfisher]

Hello @alexscott-ff - thank you for providing this feedback. Could you supply more detailed instructions to reproduce your issue and include screenshots and/or URLs, if applicable. Thank you!

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[ryan-williams]

I use Vimium to navigate the web via keyboard ("f" hotkey draws a 1-2 character combo over every link on a page, typing the characters "clicks" the link). As this issue notes, there are no links in GitHub's file-tree panel, rendering it inaccessible by Vimium:

Accessible file-tree examples

For comparison, here are 3 similar file-tree components I happen to have open, whose elements are proper links:

GitHub's "discussions" forum

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/accessibility:

W3C's "treeitem" docs

https://w3c.github.io/aria/#treeitem:

Random Python library docs

https://anndata.readthedocs.io:

The first two are linked from yesterday's "Considerations for making a tree view component accessible" GitHub blog post.

[ryan-williams]

I just noticed that PRs' "files" pages have a file tree with proper links:

Would be great to fix the regular repo-browsing file tree.

[cehfisher]

Thank you for taking the time to provide additional feedback @ryan-williams! We have added your comment to our internal tracking issue.

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[ryan-williams]

This is still an issue.