All paragraphs should have class="govuk-body", or be otherwise
custom-styled. This commit adds some extra checks to our test fixture
that looks for paragraphs that don’t have any styling. Our test coverage
is pretty good, so this should check almost all pages, and prevent
regressions.
I’ve done this in such a way that it can be extended for other elements
(e.g. links) in the future.
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
Native `<details>` elements will work in most
evergreen browsers but the details component from
GOVUK Frontend adds missing accessibility
information through ARIA.
accented characters rather than special characters. call them accented
as special is a bit wishy washy and doesn't explain what they actually
are. "Diacritics" is correct but too technical. Accented characters is
a happy middle ground
screanreaders struggle to distinguish accented letters, capitals, etc,
so by having a simple two column layout we can have the full unicode
glyph name, removing any ambiguity.
Got some advice from the content community:
> I don't think we have a style on this - it doesn't really come up on
> GOV.UK mainstream.
>
> In your example, I'd go with something like 'less than £250 before
> VAT' or 'less than £250 (not including VAT)' to make it as clear as
> possible. Would that work?
I’ve gone with ’less than £250 (before VAT)’. I noticed that elsewhere
we’ve said ‘Each message costs 1.58 pence (plus VAT)’ so that feels
fairly consistent.
So that you don’t have to use the footer navigation to switch between
these related pages. Matches the template we use for organising
features-related content.
