Problem/Motivation

This was discovered in #3023242: Pagination/Pager style update. In this issue, the global pager styling is being restyled, including the arrows for First/Previous/Next/Last.

However, many default views configurations add their own arrows, which will appear alongside any theme-provided arrows

Views config

Claro and views arrows

This is being worked around in Claro by filtering the arrow characters in Twig, but this isn't particularly sustainable. It is preferable to find a solution that allows themes to more easily override pager arrows.

Proposed resolution

Not sure yet.

Remaining tasks

Determine best approach

User interface changes

TBD

API changes

TBD

Data model changes

TBD

Release notes snippet

TBD

Comments

bnjmnm created an issue. See original summary.

Version: 8.8.x-dev » 8.9.x-dev

Drupal 8.8.0-alpha1 will be released the week of October 14th, 2019, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.9.x-dev branch. (Any changes to 8.9.x will also be committed to 9.0.x in preparation for Drupal 9’s release, but some changes like significant feature additions will be deferred to 9.1.x.). For more information see the Drupal 8 and 9 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 and 9 release cycles.

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martijn.cuppens commented

Imo, the arrows are design elements and should be removed from the translation strings globally.

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pcate commented
Issue tags: +Accessibility

I agree, the pager arrows are things I always have the override in custom themes. Having the arrows as text characters by default alongside legitimate text always makes this harder than it needs to be.

The current way may also have a11y issues, since I believe the arrow text characters are read by screen readers.

While I'm sure it would depend how the fix for this issue is implemented, changing the defaults would affect all current themes that don't override the pager. Would this be considered a BC because of that? If so, getting this resolved for D9 would be ideal.

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martijn.cuppens commented

I believe the arrow text characters are read by screen readers.

I've tested this, this is not the case in Chromium.

Would this be considered a BC because of that?

This is definitely a BC, custom translations will not be applied anymore.

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johnv
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Title: Views pager arrows should be easier to override in themes. » Pager arrows should be easier to override in themes
Category: Task » Feature request

This better is Feature request, or even a Bug report.

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Category: Feature request » Bug report

Accessibility issues are bugs.

Version: 11.x-dev » main

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