This PR fixes some accessibility issues in our theme docs (i.e. not generated code) flagged by #1513. Here, I target changes that I say are not "systemic", i.e. issues that are easily resolvable by changing our copy and page structure (rather than issues that are created by how kramdown/rouge generates HTML, or reworking our color themes).
Here's a quick summary of the manual changes I made:
- ~~writing some JS to set `tabindex="0"` on all code blocks; I'd prefer a ruby-native solution, but that involves writing Ruby code, which is incompatible with the pages gem~~ I've moved this to #1533
- rewriting many headings named "Example" which were almost always h4s into more descriptive headings + the appropriate heading level, adding .text-delta to maintain the previous style when necessary
- removing some old heading ID hacks in `index-test` that are no longer necessary, since Jekyll does this automatically now
- fixing the table headings in `docs/utilities/layout.md`
- adding accessible titles + descriptions to the mermaid examples
- occasionally, slightly moving around copy to make it align with new headings
If you test with #1513 with the following rules disabled:
```rb
skipped_rules = [
'color-contrast', # requires theme auditing
# issues w/ autogenerated footnotes
'aria-allowed-role',
'landmark-no-duplicate-contentinfo',
'landmark-unique',
'aria-deprecated-role',
# issues w/ markdown checkboxes
'label'
]
```
You should get passing tests :) which is awesome!
## next steps
1. we need to do a pass over our docs copy - very inconsistent. This has been a pain point for me for a while now, just need to find time to sit down and do it. In particular, I'd love to standardize how we display example code (perhaps even hiding it with `<details>` and `<summary>`?), our headings language, what goes into the ToC, our overall writing style, etc.
2. ~~I don't love the JS hack for adding `tabindex="0"` to code blocks (so that they are keyboard-focusable). Ideally, we'd add a custom formatter to rouge to do this, but we can't execute arbitrary Ruby code when users use `github-pages`. I'll look into this some more - maybe rouge would be open to adding this as a feature.~~ see: #1533
4. There are some systemic issues that need a deeper look:
1. The most common issue is still color-contrast. Fixing this involves:
- looking at our whites/blacks/grays for core text and highlighting
- reevaluating our syntax highlighting themes
- fixing dark mode, once and for all :)
- also, picking accessible callout colours!
2. kramdown's autogenerated footnotes feature creates a bunch of errors that aXe flags: it seems like a deprecated aria role is being used, and perhaps some misuse of markup. Need to look into this more before I can make a solid attempt at resolving this issue.
3. We demonstrate the use of `- [ ]`, but this generates `<input type="checkbox">` values with no label. I'm not entirely sure what the best way to fix this problem is (without writing custom Ruby code). I'll have to think about this some more.
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Co-authored-by: Michael Ball <michael@mball.co>
* Remove `jekyll-default-layout` plugin
* Move docs/navigation-structure to docs/navigation
* Fix uses of line-nos in md files
* Update CHANGELOG.md
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Co-authored-by: Matt Wang <matt@matthewwang.me>
