collective.webrichtlijnen 1.1

A theme product for the Dutch web guidelines.

Introduction

This theme is aimed at making Plone compliant with the Dutch web guidelines.

Website of the Dutch web guidelines: http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english

A description from the webrichtlijnen.nl website:

Government bodies and companies are facing the challenge of
creating websites that are optimally accessible to people as
well as browsers and search engines. The Web Guidelines
aid in that process.

There are internationally recognized agreements for creating
web sites known as 125 quality requirements standards warrants
a significantly better website. The Netherlands government
has assembled these international standards in a quality model
called the Web Guidelines. This quality model comprises 125
quality requirements for the benefit of better websites.

This theme is tested using the Dutch web guidelines quick scan. The quick scan checks 47 points of 125. There 78 points in the guidelines that need manual checking. These manual tests involve how the website uses HTML and other relevant techniques, that the content manager(s) are aware of several guidelines and how processes supporting the guidelines are defined. In the doc dir an example is included for all the manual points. The document is named ‘niet_toetsbare_webrichtlijnen.odt’ and is in Dutch.

If you’re from the Dutch central goverment you can login to see the scan results. Unfortunately local goverments cannot see the complete scan results, they can use the quick scan.

Installation

See docs/INSTALL.txt for a comprehensive explanation. Prefered method for installing this theme is using buildout. If you’re installing this theme on Plone 3 please read the doc/INSTALL.txt. Don’t say I didn’t told you! For Plone 3 you need the Plone.Tableless egg, some zcml slugs and version pinning.

Why aim at these Dutch web guidelines and not the W3C standard?

All websites of the Dutch central goverment need too comply with the Dutch web guidelines in 2010. (http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/background/). Websites of the local goverment (ie. municipalities) have the aim to be compliant in 2010.

Webrichtlijnen compliant HTML/CSS code that is marked as invalid

The following points are marked as invalid by the quick scan. When a manual check is done these points are valid.

• Invalid (R-pd.1.1): The use of a width attribute is only allowed with images, the quick scan finds a width attribute. This is not correct no width attribute is used.

• Possible valid (R-pd.8.11): If access keys are used make sure it works on every page on the site and only use numbers. Plone follows this practice and uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys.

• Possible valid (R-pd.9.1): The quickscan finds an inline style tag. This is not correct no inline style is used.

Webrichtlijnen non-compliant HTML/CSS code

The following points are marked as invalid by the quick scan.

• Invalid (R-pd.2.6): Plone uses CSS3 to create rounded corners. The CSS used fails when using the W3C CSS check. The use of CSS3 is complementary, where this is applied the pages are still visisble with a browser that uses CSS2.1

• Possible invalid (R-pd.3.9): The Plone footer uses a sub element to show the copyright character. The web guidelines advised to avoid using sup (suberscript) and sub (subscript)element where possible.

Plone versions and themes

The webrichtlijnen theme works with Plone 3 and 4. When using the webrichtlijnen theme the visual appearance of Plone isn’t altered. The table below shows which default Plone theme is used as base and which webrichtlijnen theme version works with a specific version of Plone/

Theme version	Plone version	Plone theme
1.0	3.x	Plone tableless
1.1	4.x	Sunburst theme

Sponsor

The development of this theme is funded by http://gemeente.groningen.nl/ - Gemeente Groningen (municipality of Groningen).

Changelog

1.1 (2010-06-16)

• Webrichtlijnen theme for Plone 4

• Uses Sunburst Theme as base theme

• Updated all overridden views/templates for Plone 4

• Not backwards compatible with Plone 4. Use version 1.0 for Plone 3.

1.0.1 (2010-06-16)

• Updated readme and install document. Version pinning is required if this theme is installed under Plone 3

1.0 (2010-02-01)

• Did come cleaning up and fixed the doctests

0.2 (2009-12-17)

• A theme that makes Plone 3 webrichtlijnen complaint

• Uses Plone Tableless Theme as base theme.

• Several overrides for viewlets and portlets for webrichtlijnen

• Customized several templates for webrichtlijnen

• The specific changes are commented in the code using the phrase ‘Webrichtlijnen changes’.

0.1 - Unreleased

• Initial release