In a client-side routed app, a user activates a link. The URL changes and the new page renders. What has the browser stopped doing for you, and what must you now do by hand?

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The situation behind the question

A documentation site converted from server-rendered pages to a SPA. Nothing looks different. A screen-reader user reports that following a link "does nothing", and a keyboard user reports that Tab after navigating goes to the site header again from the top.

What it is really testing

Whether the candidate knows what a real navigation provides and that client-side routing silently opts out of all of it. This is the clearest case in the domain of accessibility as engineering: nothing is visually wrong and the page is unusable for two input methods.

Where the mechanism is taught