Avoid rendering empty lists in top links and footer #4505
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Background
We've had an accessibility error reported by the Spanish "Portal Administración electrónica" (PAe). While I can't find any accessibility rule saying empty lists should be avoided, it looks like some screen readers report finding lists with 0 items, which is annoying.
Objectives
Notes
The CSS rule
ul:empty { display: none}
cannot be applied here because right now browsers don't apply this rule when there's whitespace inside the<ul>
tag and the HTML we generate contains whitespace.