The page_header macro includes an optional back link. Since the
page_header is always used inside `<main>`, where the back link should
not be, this stops setting the back link in the page header and instead
sets it in the new `backLink` block.
When we converted textboxes on Notify to govuk-frontend design system
style with @tombye , we did not remove the imports.
This work is now done in this commit.
Some things that will still stay in our repo for now:
textbox macro in our components folder and associated css
textboxes which are really textarea fields (🤷 how do they work)
textboxes on the styleguide page
We should revisit this when we convert textarea fields
to govuk-frontend.
Changes those fields (and sometimes also regular text input fields)
in the following forms:
- LoginForm
- RegisterUserForm
- ChangeEmailForm
- FeedbackOrProblem
- AcceptAgreementForm
- ChangeNameForm (only name field here, but used in the same template
field as ChangeEmailForm here: app/templates/views/user-profile/change.html)
Also includes changes to templates that use this form
and associated tests.
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.
Google’s documentation says:
> robots.txt is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To
> keep a web page out of Google, you should use noindex directives
A noindex directive means adding the following meta tag to pages that
shouldn’t be indexed:
```html
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
```
It’s also possible to set the directive as a HTTP header, but this seems
trickier to achieve on a per-view basis in Flask.
I’ve implemented this as a decorator so it can quickly be added to any
other pages that we decide shouldn’t appear in search results.
This is for tickets coming from non-logged-in users. It’s effectively
the same as reporting a problem, but doesn’t have the banner about
the status page (because we can’t tell if they’re actually reporting a
problem now we’re not asking).
It also gives a more generic page title.
We can’t give advice to members of the public, but increasingly we’re
seeing them try to use our support form to ask.
It would be better for them if we can direct them straight to somewhere
more useful, before they have the chance to raise a support ticket.
This commit replaces the report a problem/ask a question triaging for
users who aren’t signed in. It’s not possible for non-signed-in users to
raise an priority 1 ticket, so we never need to triage the tickets in
this way.
Instead we can triage people based on whether they work in the public
sector or not. If they do then we send them on to the feedback form. If
not then they go to a new page which contains some useful links. We’ve
chosen these links based on some analysis of the support tickets we’ve
received recently[1]
1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uBQn-ZnCYfz6ltFaUKZpytgvBF0-MeshCLZ1cD74R0c/edit?usp=sharing
We are seeing little benefit of allowing users to not put in their email
address. This will mean that you must provide it for feedback, not just
problems with the site.
There could maybe be some more refactoring of the support templates as
this is now very similar to the report a problem page but this is a
quick fix so haven't gone too in depth.
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.
On the support page we now promise that we’ll:
- look at tickets within half an hour
- reply within one working day
The thanks page was always promising a reply within half an hour, during
business hours or an emergency. This commit changes the ‘thanks’ page to
be consistent with the support page.
This will stop us repeatedly forgetting to add `novalidate` and
`autocomplete='off'` to our forms (which is how most of them are set
up).
It uses sensible defaults, based on how we most-commonly configure
forms:
- most of our forms are `post`ed (but this can be overridden)
- `autocomplete` should only be enabled where it makes sense, otherwise
it’s more annoying than useful (but this can be overriden)
- we should never be using HTML5 form validation because our own error
styles and messages are better
This commit:
- uses WTForms email fields wherever we collect email addresses
- makes sure we don’t let the default HTML5 form validation get trigged
(using `novalidate`[1])
We don’t want to use the default validation because:
- it looks out of place
- it’s not well supported by assistive technology
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/form#attr-novalidate
The idea is if you decide your problem isn’t such an emergency after
all, we direct you to the form where you can report it as such. This
link wasn’t working because it didn’t understand `False` to mean ‘not
severe’. Only ‘no’ means not severe.
The result was that users got sent in a bit of a convoluted loop
where they were asked again if their problem was an emergency or not.
Testing this by making sure that both:
- the URL in the link is what we expected
- when visited it gives the page title we expect
Because even if we had had the first test only, it wouldn’t have caught
this bug.
