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Fix blog accessibility issues
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ My personal webpage, and a space I'm using to learn a little web-dev.
This site uses [React](https://react.dev/) with assets from
[Material UI](https://mui.com/material-ui/).

I'm also using [WAVE](https://wave.webaim.org/) to ensure the website
is designed with accessibility in mind.

## Usage

I use [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/) to manage the project, but the steps below
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56 changes: 32 additions & 24 deletions src/pages/Blog.jsx
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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
ListItemButton,
ListItemIcon,
ListItemText,
Tooltip,
Typography,
} from '@mui/material';
import Markdown from 'react-markdown';
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sx={{
p: 2,
width: '100%',
textAlign: 'justify',
textAlign: 'left',
display: 'flex',
flexShrink: 1,
flexDirection: 'column',
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sx={{
p: 2,
width: '100%',
textAlign: 'justify',
textAlign: 'left',
display: 'flex',
flexShrink: 1,
flexDirection: 'column',
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<Heading centred>Blog</Heading>
</Box>
<Divider variant="middle" flexItem aria-hidden="true" />
<Typography variant="h6" sx={{ fontWeight: 'light', p: 4 }}>
<Typography
variant="h5"
component="div"
sx={{ fontWeight: 'light', p: 4 }}
>
Welcome to my blog! Here I'll be jotting down whatever interests me
at the time -- mainly programming, but maybe some other topics too.
</Typography>
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>
<List>
{articles.map((article, idx) => (
<ListItemButton
key={idx}
href={`#/blog/${article.stem}`}
sx={{
display: 'flex',
justifyContent: 'space-between',
textAlign: 'left',
width: '100%',
}}
>
<ListItem sx={{ width: '100%' }}>
<ListItemIcon>
<DoubleArrow />
</ListItemIcon>
<ListItemText
primary={article.markdown.data.title}
secondary={article.markdown.data.subtitle}
/>
{toDate(article.markdown.data.published)}
</ListItem>
</ListItemButton>
<Tooltip title={article.markdown.data.title} key={idx}>
<ListItemButton
key={idx}
href={`#/blog/${article.stem}`}
sx={{
display: 'flex',
justifyContent: 'space-between',
textAlign: 'left',
width: '100%',
}}
aria-label={`Read blog post: ${article.markdown.data.title}`}
>
<ListItem sx={{ width: '100%' }}>
<ListItemIcon>
<DoubleArrow />
</ListItemIcon>
<ListItemText
primary={article.markdown.data.title}
secondary={article.markdown.data.subtitle}
/>
{toDate(article.markdown.data.published)}
</ListItem>
</ListItemButton>
</Tooltip>
))}
</List>
</Box>
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129 changes: 91 additions & 38 deletions src/pages/Home.jsx
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import './logos.css';

import { Description as CV, GitHub } from '@mui/icons-material';
import { Box, Button, IconButton, SvgIcon, Typography } from '@mui/material';
import {
Description as CV,
GitHub,
ListAlt as Blog,
} from '@mui/icons-material';
import {
Box,
Button,
IconButton,
SvgIcon,
Tooltip,
Typography,
} from '@mui/material';
import React from 'react';

import muiLogo from '../assets/mui.svg';
import reactLogo from '../assets/react.svg';
import viteLogo from '../assets/vite.svg';

function HomePageTitle() {
return (
<Box
sx={{
p: 2,
textAlign: 'center',
alignItems: 'center',
justifyContent: 'center',
}}
>
<Typography variant="h1" sx={{ p: 3, fontWeight: 'light' }}>
liampattinson.github.io
</Typography>
</Box>
);
}

function HomePageTextBox({ children }) {
// 'children' should be a string delmited by newlines.
// Each line will be rendered as a separate Typography component
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}}
>
{children.split('\n').map((str, index) => (
<Typography key={index} variant="h4" sx={{ p: 3, fontWeight: 'light' }}>
<Typography
key={index}
variant="h4"
component="div"
sx={{ p: 3, fontWeight: 'light' }}
>
{str}
</Typography>
))}
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// work without the CSS file.
return (
<>
<HomePageTitle />
<HomePageTextBox>
{'I made a website.\nKinda.\nThese things did most of the work:'}
{`Welcome to my personal website!\nI'm a research software engineer at the University of York.\nCheck out my GitHub profile, CV, and blog:`}
</HomePageTextBox>
<HomePageImages>
<IconButton href="https://react.dev" target="_blank">
<img src={reactLogo} className="logo spin" alt="React logo" />
</IconButton>
<IconButton href="https://vite.dev" target="_blank">
<img src={viteLogo} className="logo" alt="Vite logo" />
</IconButton>
<IconButton href="https://mui.com" target="_blank">
<img src={muiLogo} className="logo" alt="Material UI logo" />
</IconButton>
</HomePageImages>
<HomePageTextBox>{"Here's another cool thing I made:"}</HomePageTextBox>
<HomePageImages>
<Button
href="https://www.github.com/PlasmaFAIR/Fortitude"
target="_blank"
>
<img
src="https://opengraph.githubassets.com/%3Cany_hash_number%3E/PlasmaFAIR/Fortitude"
border="1px solid black"
style={{ maxHeight: '100%', maxWidth: '100%', flexShrink: 1 }}
alt="Fortitude repository (image may not render if too many requests are made)"
/>
</Button>
<Tooltip title="GitHub">
<IconButton
href="https://github.com/LiamPattinson"
target="_blank"
aria-label="Link to GitHub profile"
>
<SvgIcon sx={{ width: '6em', height: '6em' }}>
<GitHub />
</SvgIcon>
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
<Tooltip title="CV">
<IconButton href="/#/cv" aria-label="Link to CV">
<SvgIcon sx={{ width: '6em', height: '6em' }}>
<CV />
</SvgIcon>
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
<Tooltip title="Blog">
<IconButton href="/#/blog" aria-label="Link to blog">
<SvgIcon sx={{ width: '6em', height: '6em' }}>
<Blog />
</SvgIcon>
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
</HomePageImages>
<HomePageTextBox>
{'Want to see more?\nCheck out my GitHub profile and CV:'}
{'Everything here was built using React, Vite, and Material UI:'}
</HomePageTextBox>
<HomePageImages>
<IconButton href="https://github.com/LiamPattinson" target="_blank">
<SvgIcon sx={{ width: '6em', height: '6em' }}>
<GitHub />
</SvgIcon>
</IconButton>
<IconButton href="/#/cv">
<SvgIcon sx={{ width: '6em', height: '6em' }}>
<CV />
</SvgIcon>
</IconButton>
<Tooltip title="React">
<IconButton
href="https://react.dev"
target="_blank"
aria-label="Link to React website"
>
<img src={reactLogo} className="logo spin" alt="React logo" />
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
<Tooltip title="Vite">
<IconButton
href="https://vite.dev"
target="_blank"
aria-label="Link to Vite website"
>
<img src={viteLogo} className="logo" alt="Vite logo" />
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
<Tooltip title="Material UI">
<IconButton
href="https://mui.com"
target="_blank"
aria-label="Link to Material UI website"
>
<img src={muiLogo} className="logo" alt="Material UI logo" />
</IconButton>
</Tooltip>
</HomePageImages>
</>
);
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