DS-10 — Resources Validation and Cross-Site QA Notes

DS-10 — Resources Validation and Cross-Site QA Notes

Status: Complete
Branch: agent/ds-10-final-qa
Pull request: #18 — DS-10 Validate Resources and complete cross-site QA
Merged: 2026-07-16

Resources Corrections

  • Migrated Resources from assets/css/jat-resources.css into the shared Sass import order.
  • Removed the standalone stylesheet, page-level stylesheet link, and inline background-image presentation.
  • Added jat-resources-document so Resources selectors remain scoped.
  • Replaced background blocks with decorative <img> elements and explicit responsive aspect ratios.
  • Consolidated repeated Coming Soon wording into one In Development section with Planned preview labels.
  • Clarified that the two planned cards are previews rather than active downloads.
  • Added section-heading relationships and retained existing concepts, descriptions, formats, and current actions.
  • Corrected a desktop grid constraint found during visual QA so the design-principle media and copy columns no longer overlap.

Cross-Site QA Completed

Pages reviewed: Home, Posts, Series, Podcast, Resources, About, Search, and Professional Background.

  • Every page has one h1, one main, unique IDs, and a declared page archetype.
  • No empty links, broken primary-page destinations, or missing image alternatives were found.
  • Navigation states are correct; Professional Background remains intentionally outside primary navigation.
  • Forty-eight responsive/theme cases passed: eight pages × 1440px, 768px, and 390px × light and dark modes.
  • No horizontal overflow was found.
  • Real keyboard Tab testing passed on all eight pages with visible focus on tested controls.
  • Footer destinations, image treatment, headings, landmarks, labels, buttons, and text links passed review.
  • Search restored query state and passed query, filter-only, combined, short-query, no-result, and clear/reset states.
  • Posts pagination destinations and later-page card counts passed.
  • Series retained eight collections and 40 ordered links; hash opening, focus, native toggling, and same-hash reopening passed.
  • Professional Background produced a clean three-page Letter print layout.

Evidence

  • Protected Jekyll build 57 passed on commit 20c2f2666afe46b17fb9758e51c4f3f4c4f30212.
  • Corrected artifact ID: 8380634623.
  • Responsive matrix: 48 cases, zero overflow failures.
  • Keyboard counts with zero visible-focus failures: Home 44, Posts 42, Series 50, Podcast 28, Resources 28, About 50, Search 29, Professional Background 30.
  • Search index: 120 published reflections at the time of validation.
  • Resources desktop media/copy overlap measurement: zero.
  • Print output: three Letter pages; the final page contains the complete Technical Expertise grid without clipping.

Legacy Cleanup

Removed safely:

  • Standalone Resources CSS
  • Resources stylesheet loading and inline background-image declarations
  • Superseded height-based Resources media rules

Retained intentionally:

  • The Clean Blog vendor layer, _sass/styles.scss, and _sass/_dark.scss remain because inherited post, Contact, and utility templates still depend on portions of them.
  • A few Search and former footer-form compatibility selectors remain inside broad foundational files. Removing isolated blocks provides little reader benefit and creates unnecessary regression risk outside the eight-page scope.
  • Data-driven Home background images remain because Liquid selects current post and series artwork dynamically.

Deferred

  • Newsletter implementation
  • Podcast launch and recorded episode publishing
  • Category and topic archives
  • Large-scale post-content editing
  • Individual series landing pages
  • A later legacy-CSS reduction project covering inherited templates

The DS-01 through DS-10 design-consistency initiative is complete. Future work should be tracked as a new maintenance or feature project rather than reopening this roadmap.