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# Tesseract |
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## Design |
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- Tesseract components follow a strict and simple design philosophy. |
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- The aesthetics of the elements are rigid--any element which users can |
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interact with should be easily recognizable--they are determined by the |
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usage of the chosen accent color. |
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- The look and feel of the elements are designed to be less opinionated |
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as possible. |
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## Engineering |
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- Every component is a derivative of an existing HTML element, |
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thus any Tesseract component can substitute for any HTML element |
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with added capabilities like improved user experience and consistency. |
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- In case of overloaded HTML elements such as `<input>`, Tesseract |
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dissects the element into multiple components each having a single |
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defined behavior. |
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- Tesseract components gracefully degrade to their native counterparts, |
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allowing user agents without client-side JavaScript to still use the |
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components with minimal loss of functionality. |
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- Tesseract components render Web-compliant HTML and CSS, thus |
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making it resilient to future changes in the HTML/CSS specifications. |
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- Tesseract components are designed to be used with popular JavaScript |
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frameworks like React. Consumption of the components using the framework |
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of choice should be seamless, even with the use of form-handling libraries. |
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- Terminal-based browsers such as Lynx are used to test the components |
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for accessibility and graceful degradation. |
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## Accessibility |
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- Components are made to be accessible according to Web standards (WAI-ARIA). |
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- Focus handling is managed sensibly to facilitate functional |
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keyboard navigation. |
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- In cases where there are improvements in user experience, some |
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elements may have different markup and appearance. Tesseract |
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ensures components are still usable on most assistive technologies given |
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both versions of the user interface. |
