# NewsBulletin

> Homepage news bulletin strip of topical cards above the footer; when the cards overflow, the track scrolls horizontally with previous and next buttons.

- Status: stable
- Group: marketing
- Page: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components/news-bulletin
- Contract: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/contracts/v1/NewsBulletin.contract.json

## When to use

NewsBulletin renders the homepage's footer-adjacent news strip: one topical card per item from a typed items array (the site feeds it NEWS_BULLETIN_ITEMS, currently three items; the component does not cap the list). Interactive cards are native links with per-item aria-labels; external cards open in the same tab and their label ends with "(external link)". When the cards overflow, the track scrolls horizontally and previous/next buttons appear. It is a curated editorial slot, not a feed.

## When not to use

- Do not use for full blog indexes or article lists.
- Do not replace with generic Card stacks without region semantics.
- Don't use it for blog listings; the blog index composes its own DS Grid of article cards.
- Don't use it for alert or status feedback; that's AlertBanner or Toast.

## Look-alikes

The contract names no look-alike with a deciding condition.

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | Description | Required |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `items` | `NewsBulletinItem[]` | none | Bulletin items; defaults to NEWS_BULLETIN_ITEMS. | No |
| `className` | `string` | none | Optional wrapper class. | No |

## Variants

No variant dimensions and no props with a fixed set of values.

## Invalid combinations

The contract records no invalid combinations.

## Keyboard

| Key | Behaviour |
| --- | --- |
| Tab | Moves focus to the control and on to the next focusable element. (standard) |
| Enter | Activates the focused control. (standard) |

Rows marked (standard) name a key the contract lists without a description; the behaviour shown is the usual one for that key.

## Rules

Every item under When not to use is a MUST NOT. MUST and SHOULD follow RFC 2119.

| Level | Rule | How it is checked |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MUST | ARIA: Region landmark, named by the translated "Current highlights" label. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | ARIA: Aria-label per bulletin card; unlinked cards render as article elements with that aria-label. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | ARIA: External cards open in a new tab with rel noopener noreferrer; their aria-label (which replaces the content) ends with the translated "(external link, opens in a new tab)" cue (linkExternal, linkOpensInNewTab) | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | ARIA: When the track overflows it becomes focusable (tabIndex 0) and previous/next buttons with translated aria-labels and aria-controls pointing at the track scroll it by card (instant scroll under reduced motion) | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 4.1.2. |
| MUST | Required stories produce no axe violations at the configured severity. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:matrix:ci`. WCAG 2.5.8. |
| MUST | The accessibility tree (role, name, state) matches the committed snapshot for every required story. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:matrix:ci`. WCAG 1.3.1, 4.1.2. |
| MUST | The component remains legible and operable under a real browser forced-colors: active pass. | Automated by `npm run test:stories:hc`. |
| MUST | Every documented keyboard interaction works as specified. | Not yet verified: no evidence record. WCAG 2.1.1, 2.1.2. |
| MUST | A human completed an end-to-end accessibility review of this component. | Manual review, last on 2026-11-04. |
| SHOULD | Feed it from NEWS_BULLETIN_ITEMS (or an equivalent typed list) and keep it to about three items; the component renders every item it gets, but the strip is a curated slot, not a feed. | Not stated in the contract. |

## Install and import

- In-repo only. NewsBulletin is not exported from `@digitaltableteur/react`, so there is no public import path.

## Links

- Machine-readable contract (Design System Contract 1.0): https://www.digitaltableteur.com/contracts/v1/NewsBulletin.contract.json
- Markdown version of this page: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components/news-bulletin.md
- Component index as JSON: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components.json
- All components: https://www.digitaltableteur.com/design-system/components
- Source: The implementation lives in a private repository. This page, its Markdown twin and the contract are generated from it at build time and are the public source of truth.