Accessibility: wrong mouse cursor is used when hovering over a link

[joukevandermaas]

Environment

Windows build number:
Platform ServicePack Version      VersionString
-------- ----------- -------      -------------
 Win32NT             10.0.19041.0 Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19041.0

Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 1.5.3142.0

Any other software?

Steps to reproduce

Hover over a URL in the terminal. A tooltip says "ctrl+click to follow link", but the mouse cursor stays the "normal select" cursor.

Expected behavior

I expect the "link select" mouse cursor to be used when hovering over links.

Actual behavior

This cursor is used:

I couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot that includes the mouse cursor, Windows hides it when pressing the print screen button. But this is the context:

[PhMajerus]

This is more about discoverability than accessibility.

The hand is typically only displayed when a click would immediately follow the link.
In MS Office apps for example, the cursor hovering a hyperlink only turns into a hand when Ctrl is held down. This makes it clear to the user that a click without Ctrl has the normal selection behavior, while a click with Ctrl down would follow the link.
Windows Terminal should follow the same behavior for clarity and discoverability, arrow cursor when hovering and hand cursor when Ctrl is down.

[joukevandermaas]

Yeah perhaps accessibility is not the right word, I am not sure how to categorize the issue.

To be 100% clear, when holding ctrl, it currently does not change the mouse cursor. The solution you describe makes perfect sense to me.

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #7563 for more discussion.

/dup #7563

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!