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aaronwatts@dev

ARIA compliant filter search

I've managed to find some time to spend at my computer recently, after all the festivities and flu. I decided I would continue working on the accessibility and ARIA compliance on my main website. Next on the list was the filter search that I use on my index pages.

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My break was extended

2026 has been slow getting started for me. I was just about done with Christmas and New Year celebrations, ready to get back to life's usual flow, but then I got a damned flu.

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I took a break

This is the second year that I've opted to stay away from my computer (in a recreational sense) throughout the lead up to Christmas. I feel better for it. As much as I enjoy working on my various projects, December can always feel like there isn't enough time to get everything done, especially around work and catching up with friends and family.

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Atom Feed Content

I've found something in Publii to nag about, although it's not really the fault of Publii per se. It's more to do with loose specs and lack of standardisation elsewhere, and the issues this can then cause.

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ARIA compliant breadcrumbs

I've been looking at improving accessibility across my main website. One of my main goals when building it originally was to keep it as simple as possible, which is now paying off as I begin to make changes. Despite keeping it simple, I did still want the site to have at least some character, to have a little bit of me in it. So I went with the not so unique approach of styling parts of the site to look like terminal output, such as my main site navigation. I used a breadcrumb navigation and styled it to look like a directory path in a terminal prompt.

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