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Accessible Astro Starter

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Updated: 4 May 2025
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An Accessible Starter Theme for Astro 5+ including accessibility features such as landmarks, better focus-outline and skip-links navigation. Ships with Tailwind 4, Prettier and ESLint support.

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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

Installation

To get started with the Accessible Astro Starter theme, follow these steps:

  1. Clone this theme locally using the command:

    git clone [theme repository URL]

  2. Install the dependencies by running the following command:

    npm install

  3. Start the local development server at localhost:3000 with the command:

    npm run dev

  4. Build your production site to the ./dist/ directory using the command:

    npm run build

  5. Preview your build locally before deploying with the command:

    npm run preview

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.