terra-hyperlink UX Audit

[ryanthemanuel]

terra-hyperlink

Known Aliases

Document any known aliases of the component, decide if another name makes more sense.

• [X] Has known aliases
  • Potentially design standards will have a standard for both anchor navigation and link
• [ ] Requires name change

Design Standard Doc

Any documentation needed to be added to terra-ui describing the make up and usage of the component Any doc examples that need to be updated?

• [ ] Missing design standard documentation linkage.

Guides

Any guides needed to be added to terra-ui describing the usage of this component when used with other components.

• [X] Missing Guides
  • Guide for when we should be using the new link style button
• [X] Missing UX recommended Usage.
  • These should only be used for actual href external type links
• [ ] Deprecation guide

Accessibility Guides

• [X] Missing Accessibility Guides
  • No links without underline except for very specific use cases

Behaviours

• [X] Missing behaviours
  • Add a link style button that is strictly intended for navigation
• [X] Contains bad practice behaviours that should be removed
  • Evaluate whether we should not accept a children node and make it textual instead

Accessibility

• [X] Meets wcag 2.0/section 508 standards
  • Need to make sure we have consistent navigation
  • Need to add some form of assistive descriptor for the various link types (e.g. "Video link")
• [ ] Meets wcag 2.1/en 301 549 standards

Deprecation

• [ ] Component is a bad pattern and should be deprecated.

Related Issues

Other Considerations

[mjhenkes]

Re-organize terra form: https://github.com/cerner/terra-core/issues/3195