OpenACR Website

This is the website for the OpenACR (previously known as Open Product Accessibility Template or OPAT). OpenACR is an machine-readable Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR). The goal of this site is to host a description fo the format and instructions on how to use it.

A preview of the site is now available.

The site is built with Jekyll using the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) framework. It is hosted on Federalist, but using this GitHub repository you can install it locally. We have included more information from the default Federalist implementation of the USWDS to help get folks started.

Federalist + U.S. Web Design System + Jekyll

This Jekyll theme is developed using the U.S. Web Design System v 2.0 and is focused on providing developers a starter kit and reference implementation for Federalist websites.

This code uses the Jekyll site engine and built with Ruby. If you prefer to use Javascript, check out federalist-uswds-gatsby, which uses Gatsby site engine.

This project strives to be compliant with requirements set by 21st Century IDEA Act. The standards require that a website or digital service:

• is accessible to individuals with disabilities;
• has a consistent appearance;
• does not duplicate any legacy websites (the legislation also requires agencies to ensure that legacy websites are regularly reviewed, removed, and consolidated);
• has a search function;
• uses an industry standard secure connection;
• “is designed around user needs with data-driven analysis influencing management and development decisions, using qualitative and quantitative data to determine user goals, needs, and behaviors, and continually test the website, web-based form, web-based application, or digital service to ensure that user needs are addressed;”
• allows for user customization; and
• is mobile-friendly.

How to edit

• Non-developers should focus on editing markdown content in the _posts and _pages folder

• We try to keep configuration options to a minimum so you can easily change functionality. You should review _config.yml to see the options that are available to you. There are a few values on top that you need to change. They refer to the agency name and contact information. The rest of _config.yml has a range of more advanced options.

• The contents inside assets/ folder store your Javascript, SCSS/CSS, images, and other media assets are managed by jekyll-assets. Assets are combined, compressed, and automatically available in your theme

• If you look at package.json you will see that the npm run federalist command that will run when running on the Federalist platform.

• Do not edit files in the _site/ folder. These files are auto-generated, and any change you make in the folder will be overwritten.

• To edit the look and feel of the site, you need to edit files in _includes/ folder, which render key components, like the menu, side navigation, and logos.

• index.html may not require much editing, depending on how you customize hero.html and highlights.html.

• _layouts/ may require the least amount of editing of all the files since they are primarily responsible for printing the content.

• blog/index.html can be edited, but be careful. It will impact the pagination system for the posts. If you do edit the file, be prepared to edit _config.yml. For example, you may need go change configurations for jekyll-paginate-v2

• search/index.html is used by search.gov.

Getting Started

With npx (requires node)

$ npx degit https://github.com/GSA/openacr-website#main <destination-folder>
$ cd <destination-folder>

Push to your Github repository

• Create a new Github repository.
• Follow the instructions form Github or

    $ git init
    $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main
    $ git add . && git commit -m 'Initial commit'
    $ git remote add origin git@github.com:<your-org>/<your-repo>.git
    (Make sure to replace `<your-org>` and `<your-repo>` above with the correct values)
    $ git push -u origin main

Installation for development

$ git clone https://github.com/GSA/openacr-website.git
$ cd openacr-website

Running the application

With locally installed node and ruby

$ npm install
$ bundle install
$ npm start 
OR
$ bundle exec jekyll serve

To build but not serve the site, run npm run build or bundle exec jekyll build.

With Docker

$ docker-compose run node npm install
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

To build but not serve the site, run:

docker-compose run ruby bundle exec jekyll build

.

Note that when built by Federalist, npm run federalist is used instead of npm run build.

Open your web browser to localhost:4000 to view your site.

Testing

With locally installed node and ruby

$ npm test
OR
$ bundle exec htmlproofer _site; npx a11y '_site/**/*.html'

With Docker

$ docker-compose run ruby bundle exec htmlproofer _site; npx a11y '_site/**/*.html'

Technologies you should be familiarize yourself with

• Jekyll - The primary site engine that builds your code and content.
• Front Matter - The top of each page/post includes keywords within -- tags. This is meta data that helps Jekyll build the site, but you can also use it to pass custom variables.
• U.S. Web Design System v 2.0

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING for additional information.

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.