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USWDS-Site - Code samples: Let long code lines wrap on small screens - #3302
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Code samples use `white-space: pre-wrap`, but nothing let a single long
token break, so a path such as
`require("./node_modules/@uswds/uswds/package.json");` ran past its
`<pre>` on small screens. The spill lands in the surrounding
`.usa-accordion__content`, which USWDS gives `overflow: auto`, so the
accordion body turns into a horizontally scrollable region. When that
region has no focusable child (no link, no copy button), axe reports
scrollable-region-focusable on it. On the migration page this hits
`#m-a6` at 375px; with browser zoom it hits every accordion in the
compiler section, including the three settings tables, whose `code`
cells could not shrink either.
Fix the cause rather than the symptom: `code, pre` get
`overflow-wrap: anywhere`, so long tokens wrap and nothing overflows the
accordion in the first place. `word-wrap: break-word` is declared first
as the fallback for browsers without `anywhere` support, which includes
the Chromium 77 that pa11y-ci's puppeteer runs. (Declaring
`overflow-wrap` twice does not survive csso, which keeps only the last
value, hence the legacy property name for the fallback.)
Add a mobile pa11y-ci entry that opens the first compiler accordion on
the migration page before scanning, mirroring the issue's steps; the
sitemap run only ever sees accordions collapsed. It fails before this
change (0/1 URLs passed, scrollable-region-focusable on #m-a6) and
passes after. The CI shard script copied only `defaults` from the base
config, which would have dropped that entry on CircleCI, so it now adds
base-config `urls` entries to the pool before sharding; each still runs
exactly once across the shards.
Verified with axe-core 4.10.2 in Chrome 153: no scrollable-region
violations on the migration page from 375px down to 188px, with and
without classic scrollbars; across all 240 sitemap pages with every
accordion opened at 375px, pages with violations go from 1 to 0. rspec,
lint, and the mobile and desktop pa11y-ci sitemap runs pass.
Fixes uswds#3293
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Reviewed the code-wrapping fix and the expanded-accordion regression check. No blocking findings.
Validated the final branch with current main merged in: full build, lint, and 37 RSpec examples pass. The baseline CSS reproduces the reported keyboard-scroll violation; the fix passes at 375px, 320px, and 188px. Keyboard open/close behavior and copied code text are preserved. The fallback also passes with the newer declaration removed, and the regression case is retained exactly once across one, two, and three CI shards.
The PR description records the unchanged desktop contrast findings separately and includes before/after screenshots.
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Summary
Long paths and package names in code samples can overflow their containers on small screens. In the migration guide, that turns an accordion panel into a horizontally scrolling region without keyboard access.
Allow long code tokens to wrap, retaining
word-wrap: break-wordas a fallback. Add a mobile accessibility check that opens the affected accordion, and preserve that check when CI divides the sitemap across parallel jobs. Include the migration-page changelog entry.Closes #3293.
Screenshots
The same migration-guide code sample at a 375px viewport:
Validation
Updated the branch from
mainat922bbebe07678c205b21766a5211b76f64dd1530and tested the combined result.scrollable-region-focusableon#m-a6with the two new CSS declarations removed: a 335px panel contained 456px of content.overflow-wrapdeclaration removed.ca54fcaadcdfdd56b00d54367d609f3fd95cff1b, including full mobile and desktop accessibility scans.At 1280px, the local expanded-page scan in current Chrome reports three header color-contrast findings with both baseline CSS and the fix. The fix introduces no additional findings in that comparison.
Review steps
Open
/documentation/migration/at a narrow viewport, expand “If you're using USWDS Gulp,” and inspect the longrequire(...)examples. Confirm the complete code remains visible without sideways scrolling and the accordion remains keyboard operable.