We have an ArcGIS Online hub site that we recently reviewed and updated for accessibility. We have several gallery objects and updated them to "Open in Same tab" based on the included WCAG notice recommending this choice in the hub site manager. Implementing this choice results in the browser not retaining its history. A user opens a new blank browser page, navigates to the hub site, clicks on an application card in the gallery, the new application opens. However, the browser back button goes back to the new blank browser page, not the hub site. One of my developers said it appears that Esri is treating this as a single page application (SPA), and is rewriting the hub page in place, thus updating the URL and the page contents, but a new page is not created. Use of a SPA without history is considered bad practice. Is this intended? Is there a setting to change this behavior? Until this is fixed, the "recommended" Same tab is worse behavior and more confusing than New tab for accessibility.
