[Bug]: access notebook server button should behave like a link

[christianvogt]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Deploy type

OpenDataHub core version (eg. v1.6.0)

Version

1.7.0

Current Behavior

The Access notebook server button on the Notebook server control panel page doesn't give direct access to the server URL for the user to be able to copy it or open the link in a new browser tab. The button isn't rendered as a link in the page but rather an action.

Expected Behavior

Expect all actions that perform navigation to be rendered as links to take advantage of build in browser behavior and accessibility.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a notebook server
2. navigate to the notebook control panel page /notebookController
3. ctrl+click on the Access notebook server button
4. Expected: a new window / tab to open
5. Observed: content is loaded in the current tab
6. Similarly, right click and attempt to "copy link address"
7. Observed: no option to copy link address since the button has no href.

Workaround (if any)

1. Duplicate the tab
2. Click the access notebook server button

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge

Anything else

No response

[andrewballantyne]

JupyterHub design... 😞 We can look to improving it to be more a11y.

cc @kywalker-rh this is outside of everyone's SME ... you're up 🙂

[kywalker-rh]

Not sure there's much for UX to do here. Makes sense to me that we would simply change the current button to a link. I think it is mostly a transparent change, unless I am missing something.

[andrewballantyne]

Not sure there's much for UX to do here. Makes sense to me that we would simply change the current button to a link. I think it is mostly a transparent change, unless I am missing something.

Okay, not sure if we want to talk about the futures of this page on this issue -- but that makes sense to me. It was designed this way because of JupyterHub some 10 months ago lol.

[bdattoma]

@christianvogt @andrewballantyne @kywalker-rh following the same reasoning, should also these buttons have a link attached?

[andrewballantyne]

Well, fair -- but it doesn't matter at this point. The two buttons do what a link would do. Feel free to log a feature request.