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Articles about my main website, where everything is built from scratch, and every facet is learned about and decided by me.

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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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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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Changes to AaronWattsDev

I've been doing work on my website to make it more accessible. This has sent me down a few branching rabbit holes. Hopefully making a note of what I've done and what I plan to do will help me keep track of everything I'm hoping to implement..

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Still Restructuring

The accessibility website restructure has turned out to be a longer job than I had anticipated. Although it's given me a chance to practise my Vim controls - Vim has taken a lot of the work out of it, I'm glad I decided to switch to it again and learn it proper this time.

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Semantic Restructuring

A while ago, a friend introduced me to Simple CSS, a CSS file (not framework), that focused on the use of semantic markup in styling a web page. After "pressure and feedback from the community", the creator added classes to Simple CSS, two of them.

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