psammead-story-promo -

Description

The StoryPromo component is designed to be used on 'index' pages, which are pages that link to other articles/stories. This info can be any collection of nodes, however typically these would be a headline, text summary and timestamp.

Exports

/index-alsos - components for links to stories that are related to the top story.

Installation

npm install @bbc/psammead-story-promo

StoryPromo Props

Headline Props

Summary Props

IndexAlsos

The Index Alsos are links to stories that are related to the top story.

Within the IndexAlsos component there is a Visually Hidden level 4 heading, which announces text passed as prop.

When there are more than one Index Alsos, they should be wrapped in a list item IndexAlsosLi within an unordered list IndexAlsosUl with the role listitem and list respectively.

On the other hand, when there is exactly one Index Also, it should use the IndexAlso component and it should not be contained within a list.

Props

IndexAlsos Props

Data attributes, such as data-e2e can be passed in for testing as well.

IndexAlsoUl Props

IndexAlsoLi Props

IndexAlso Props

Usage

The typical use-case of this component is as displayed below. A Image sits on the left side of the promo with info elements on the right, except in Leading stories which are reversed. These info elements are typically a headline, text summary paragraph and timestamp. The Headline and Summary components are provided by this package and can be imported as seen below.

This component also has an option to display a media indicator, which consists of a play icon and duration of the media, if that data is provided.

The promoType prop of top can be passed to adopt a vertical card layout under 600px. At breakpoints above 600px a horizontal layout is maintained with the image and text summary each occupying 1/2 of the parent container.

On the other hand, a promoType prop of leading can be passed to place the Info on the left side and the Image or the right side of the component. The image occupies 2/3 of the parent container and the text summary occupies 1/3.

This prop must be passed to the StoryPromo, Headline and Summary components.

import React, { Fragment } from 'react';
import StoryPromo, {
  Headline,
  Summary,
  Link,
  IndexAlsos,
  IndexAlso,
  IndexAlsosUl,
  IndexAlsosLi,
} from '@bbc/psammead-story-promo';
import MediaIndicator from '@bbc/psammead-media-indicator';
import { latin } from '@bbc/gel-foundations/scripts';
import LiveLabel from '@bbc/psammead-live-label';
import VisuallyHiddenText from '@bbc/psammead-visually-hidden-text';

const Image = <img src="https://foobar.com/image.jpg" />;

const IndexAlsosComponent = ({ alsoItems, script, service }) => (
  //This example doesn't show how the alsoItems are destructured to get the respective data
  <IndexAlsos offScreenText="Related content">
    {alsoItems.length > 1 ? (
      <IndexAlsosUl>
        <IndexAlsosLi
          script={script}
          service={service}
          url="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news"
          mediaIndicator={
            <MediaIndicator service={service} type="video" indexAlsos />
          }
        >
          Related text 1
        </IndexAlsosLi>
        <IndexAlsosLi
          script={script}
          service={service}
          url="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news"
        >
          Related text 2
        </IndexAlsosLi>
      </IndexAlsosUl>
    ) : (
      <IndexAlso>Related text</IndexAlso>
    )}
  </IndexAlsos>
);

const Info = ({ isLive, alsoItems }) => (
  <Fragment>
    <Headline script={latin} service="news" promoType="top">
      <Link href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news">
        {isLive ? (
          <LiveLabel service="news" dir={dir} ariaHidden offScreenText="Live">
            The headline of the live promo
          </LiveLabel>
        ) : (
          'The headline of the promo'
        )}
      </Link>
    </Headline>
    <Summary script={latin} service="news" promoType="top">
      The summary of the promo
    </Summary>
    <time>12 March 2019</time>
    {topStory && alsoItems && (
      <IndexAlsosComponent
        alsoItems={alsoItems}
        script={latin}
        service="news"
      />
    )}
  </Fragment>
);

<StoryPromo image={Image} info={Info({ isLive: false })} promoType="top" />;

When to use this component

The StoryPromo component is designed to be used within a link element to allow the user to navigate to the story on another page.

Accessibility notes

This component uses full semantic markup for the Headline, Summary, and Link, using h3, p and a respectively. Other accessibility factors such as image alt text and time elements are passed in as props and aren't explicitly set in this component.

The link is nested inside the h3 for better support with VoiceOver Mac and Safari. We use the faux block link pattern which makes the entire block clickable, whilst also enabling links nested within in that block to also be clickable.

The LiveLabel example above shows this component being hidden to screen readers, and has visually hidden text rendered alongside it. This is to ensure the screen reader announces the word 'Live' correctly. This does not need to be accounted for in other languages.

Roadmap

Contributing

Psammead is completely open source. We are grateful for any contributions, whether they be new components, bug fixes or general improvements. Please see our primary contributing guide which can be found at the root of the Psammead repository.

Code of Conduct

We welcome feedback and help on this work. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the code of conduct. Please take a moment to read it.

License

Psammead is Apache 2.0 licensed.

Psammead Story Promo Changelog