Accessible Astro Starter
An Accessible, WCAG compliant Starter Theme for Astro 5+ including several accessibility features such as, better focus-outline, landmarks, semantics, interactive components and skip-link navigation. Ships with Tailwind 4, Prettier and ESLint support.
Overview
Accessible Astro Starter is a blogging theme designed to be ready to use, search engine optimized, and accessible. It provides a solid base for accessibility and includes many accessible components to build different page types. The theme utilizes Tailwind CSS for faster development and includes example pages such as a dynamic blog, 404 error page, and support for Markdown and MDX. This theme aims to help developers build projects faster while prioritizing accessibility.
Features
- Tailwind CSS support for faster development
- Prettier integration with prettier-plugin-astro and prettier-plugin-tailwind
- ESLint integration with strict accessibility settings for eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
- Markdown and MDX support with examples included
- Uses the astro-icon package for icons
- Excellent Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores
- Accessible landmarks such as header, main, footer, section, and nav
- Outline focus indicator for dark and light backgrounds
- Several aria attributes for better screen reader experience
- Dynamic routes with examples for a basic blog with breadcrumbs and pagination
- Customizable 404 error page
- Included header and footer components
- Skip links component for quick navigation to main menu or main content
- Keyboard accessible navigation with dropdowns (arrow keys, escape key)
- Accessible responsive toggle button for mobile navigation
- Dark mode toggle component with accessible button and system preferred color scheme setting
- SEO component for setting custom meta data on different pages
- Screen reader only text content utility class (hides text visually)
- Disables animations for users with a preference for reduced motion
- Many components such as Accordions, Breadcrumbs, Modals, Pagination, and more
- Collection of utility classes for breakpoints, button styles, font settings, resets, and outlines in the base directory
Summary
Accessible Astro Starter is a blogging theme that focuses on accessibility and search engine optimization. It includes a variety of features such as Tailwind CSS support, Prettier and ESLint integration, Markdown and MDX support, and accessible components like accordions and breadcrumbs. The theme also provides a solid base for accessibility with landmarks, focus indicators, and aria attributes. With its easy installation process, developers can quickly get started with this theme and build accessible and SEO-friendly projects efficiently.
- Astro
Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- Portfolio
A portfolio website is a type of website that showcases an individual's or a company's work, skills, and accomplishments. It typically includes a gallery of images or videos, case studies, and client testimonials to provide potential clients or employers with a comprehensive overview of their experience and expertise.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- UI Kits & Components
A UI kit provides developers with a set of reusable components that can be easily integrated into a website or application. These components are pre-designed with consistent styling and functionality, allowing developers to save time and effort in the design and development process. UI kits can be either custom-built or third-party, and often include components for buttons, forms, typography, icons, and more.
- Dark Mode
Dark mode is a user interface option that uses a dark color scheme instead of light. It reduces eye strain and improves visibility in low-light conditions. Implementing dark mode in a website or application involves updating the styles and color palette to support both light and dark modes.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.