@urlyman Is it wasteful? It wouldn't generate a remote request, so why does it matter?

You could intercept the click, supress its native action, then route it manually with location.hash and auto-scroll or something, then focusing the target. Seems a bit overkill though.

However that's probably not the right token for `aria-current` anyway -- how are you using it, what's the context of that link? This might answer both questions.