Day 4: CI Automation & Accessibility Hardening

Today’s focus was entirely on infrastructural maturity and UX robustness. The project has reached a state where manual verification is no longer sufficient; we need automated guarantees.

1. CI Pipeline Implementation

I introduced a strict GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/ci.yml). This pipeline enforces the “zero-error” rule defined in GEMINI.md. On every push and pull request, the pipeline now executes:

• Dependency installation (npm ci)
• Astro diagnostics and strict TypeScript type checking (npx astro check)
• A full production build (npm run build)

If any of these fail, the commit is flagged. This ensures that the main branch is always deployable to Vercel without last-minute surprises.

2. Accessibility (A11y) & UI Hardening

Visual aesthetics are irrelevant if the site cannot be navigated efficiently via keyboard or screen readers. I conducted a sweep of the core Astro components (Navbar, Footer, ProjectCard):

• Added aria-keyshortcuts to the command palette trigger.
• Enforced focus-visible:ring-2 states on all interactive elements (buttons, mobile menu toggles, social links) to guarantee distinct visual feedback during keyboard navigation.
• Cleaned up deprecated lucide-react imports that were throwing warnings during the build process, ensuring a clean compilation output.

The foundation is now rock-solid. Next up: expanding the content pipeline.