Search result pagination should not contain a link to the same page to improve screen reader accessibility

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.X, 7.1.X, 7.2.X, 7.3.X, Master
• Fix Version/s: 7.2.10 DXP FP18, 7.2.X, 7.3.X, 7.4.3.16 CE GA16, Master
• Component/s: Accessibility
• Labels:
  • ee-ts
  • liferay-fixpack-dxp-18-7210
  • liferay-fixpack-dxp-4-7310
  • liferay-update-dxp-15-7413
  • liferay-update-dxp-4-7310
• Branch Version/s:
  7.3.x, 7.2.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Fix Priority: 3
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/114149
• Bug Type: Accessibility

The search result pagination has a different visual style to highlight which is the current page:

But it also contains a link to itself, this link is processed by the screen readers, this is confusing for the final screen reader user as it is hard to notice that that link is a link to the current page.

To improve screen reader accessibility, this link should be removed.

After quick research with several search engines:

• Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=search
• Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=search
• Yahoo: https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=search
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=search

All of them are not linking the current page, so it seems we should also remove the link.

I saw the same pattern in this example: https://weboverhauls.github.io/demos/pagination/

Steps to reproduce

1. Create 25 web content
2. Search "test"
3. Go to the pagination links and check the current page position:
   • Expected behavior: Current page doesn't have any link
   • Wrong behavior: Current page has a link