Testimonial

A testimonial is a quotation with an attribution, and that is exactly what <x-wirekit::testimonial> renders: a <figure> wrapping a <blockquote> and a <figcaption>. A screen reader announces it as a quote and reads the attribution as belonging to it — which a stack of styled <div>s never does, however much it looks the part.

Three testimonials with ratings

We replaced four hand-built components with one and the accessibility review came back clean on the first pass.

Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace Principal Engineer, Analytical
The parts I usually have to fight — focus order, keyboard traps, dark mode — were simply already right.

Grace Hopper Grace Hopper CTO, Compiler Works
Every component takes tokens, so our whole brand landed by editing one file. No forks, no overrides.

Alan Turing Alan Turing Head of Platform, Enigma

<x-wirekit::testimonial-grid label="What developers say">
    <li>
        <x-wirekit::testimonial
            author="Ada Lovelace"
            role="Principal Engineer, Analytical"
            :rating="5"
        >
            We replaced four hand-built components with one and the accessibility
            review came back clean on the first pass.
        </x-wirekit::testimonial>
    </li>
    <li>
        <x-wirekit::testimonial
            author="Grace Hopper"
            role="CTO, Compiler Works"
            :rating="5"
        >
            The parts I usually have to fight — focus order, keyboard traps, dark
            mode — were simply already right.
        </x-wirekit::testimonial>
    </li>
    <li>
        <x-wirekit::testimonial
            author="Alan Turing"
            role="Head of Platform, Enigma"
            :rating="4"
        >
            Every component takes tokens, so our whole brand landed by editing one
            file. No forks, no overrides.
        </x-wirekit::testimonial>
    </li>
</x-wirekit::testimonial-grid>

Attribution

author is what makes a testimonial a testimonial. role adds the context that makes it persuasive.

Without an avatar, the component derives the author's initials and renders them in a deterministic color rather than showing an empty gray disc — the same person always gets the same color. Pass initials yourself for a mononym, a brand account, or any name where first-and-last-letter is the wrong reading.

{{-- Photo --}}
<x-wirekit::testimonial author="Ada Lovelace" role="Principal Engineer" avatar="/img/ada.jpg">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

{{-- No photo — initials are derived ("AL") --}}
<x-wirekit::testimonial author="Ada Lovelace" role="Principal Engineer">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

{{-- Override the derived initials --}}
<x-wirekit::testimonial author="Björk" initials="B">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

Rating

rating renders a read-only star rating above the quote. It is a record of what someone gave, never an input — the stars are not focusable and cannot be changed.

<x-wirekit::testimonial author="Grace Hopper" :rating="5">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

Company logo

logo places a company mark at the end of the attribution.

Leave logo-alt unset when the author is already named in text: the logo is then decoration, and giving it a name only makes a screen reader read the company twice. Pass logo-alt when the logo is the only attribution.

{{-- Author named in text -> the logo is decorative and stays silent --}}
<x-wirekit::testimonial author="Alan Turing" role="Head of Platform, Enigma" logo="/img/enigma.svg">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

{{-- Logo carries the attribution on its own -> name it --}}
<x-wirekit::testimonial author="" logo="/img/enigma.svg" logo-alt="Enigma">
    …
</x-wirekit::testimonial>

The grid

<x-wirekit::testimonial-grid> is a labeled list — a real <ul> whose children are <li> elements. That is not decoration: it means a screen reader announces "list, 3 items" before the quotes, so someone who cannot see the row knows how many there are to get through.

It flows one column on a phone, two on a tablet, three on a desktop, and stretches every quote to the height of the tallest so the row keeps a clean baseline however uneven the copy is.

<x-wirekit::testimonial-grid label="What developers say">
    <li>
        <x-wirekit::testimonial author="Ada Lovelace">…</x-wirekit::testimonial>
    </li>
    <li>
        <x-wirekit::testimonial author="Grace Hopper">…</x-wirekit::testimonial>
    </li>
</x-wirekit::testimonial-grid>

Props

`<x-wirekit::testimonial>`

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`author`	`string`	`''`	Who said it.
`role`	`string\|null`	`null`	Their role / company.
`avatar`	`string\|null`	`null`	Author photo URL. Omit to render derived initials.
`initials`	`string\|null`	`null`	Override the derived initials.
`logo`	`string\|null`	`null`	Company logo URL.
`logoAlt`	`string\|null`	`null`	Accessible name for the logo. Omit when the author is named in text.
`rating`	`int\|float\|null`	`null`	Read-only star rating (0–5).
`scope`	`string\|null`	`null`	Class-scope override.

`<x-wirekit::testimonial-grid>`

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`label`	`string`	`'Testimonials'`	Accessible name for the list of quotes.
`scope`	`string\|null`	`null`	Class-scope override.

Accessibility

The quote is a real <blockquote> inside a <figure>, attributed by a <figcaption> — announced as a quotation with its source, not as loose text.
The grid is a labeled <ul role="list"> of <li> items, so the number of quotes is announced up front.
The star rating is read-only and not focusable — it is a record, not a control.
A decorative company logo renders alt="" and is skipped, so the company is not announced twice when the author already names it.
Initials are derived with multibyte-safe string handling, so a non-ASCII name is never sliced mid-codepoint.

Keyboard Interaction

None. A testimonial is content, not a control — there is nothing here to operate. The read-only star rating is deliberately not focusable, so tabbing through a wall of quotes never traps a keyboard user in decorative stars. Any link you place inside the quote keeps its own normal tab behavior.