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austin
cff39e87c2
THE NAV NEVER SAID WHICH PAGE YOU WERE ON. A four-page site gets away with that right up until somebody clicks Catering, lands on a page of prices, and cannot tell whether the click worked. The current page now carries aria-current for a screen reader and a sage rule under the word for everyone else — a rule rather than a darker colour, because the nav is already sage on cream and darkening it reads as a hover. The list is generated from one array now instead of four hand-written anchors, which is what makes the marking possible at all. THE KEYBOARD HAD NO WAY PAST THE NAV. Every page begins with a skip link — off-screen until it has focus, then a real button in the corner, which is the half of that pattern everyone forgets. THE STORY WAS FOUR BLOCKS OF TEXT. It has photographs between the sections now, captioned in small caps, and an opening paragraph set with a drop cap in the display face. Once, on that page: a drop cap on every page would be a costume rather than a voice. 60 tests. Two new ones, both on things that fail silently rather than loudly: the active link (a wrong model attribute would mark nothing, which looks exactly like a page with no active link) and the skip link's target existing.