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[EP-tech] Re: EPrints themes + themes for people with disabilities

Hello George,

If you're looking to build a responsive repository, Bootstrap will fit your needs and will allow you to optimise your repository for different platforms (desktop, tablet, mobile). You can use the documentation available at http://getbootstrap.com/components/ to build responsive elements and to make adjustments to the code and files generated Bootstrap plugin.

If you're looking for help with accessibility, I would recommend that you use WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/), a free tool that will identify accessibility errors. You can use WAVE for every page and view, including citation summary pages. There are also a number of other tools you can use - you can find a comprehensive list at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/.

Another idea ... you can also add Accessibility Developer Tools to Google Chrome by downloading the add-on at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/accessibility-developer-t/fpkknkljclfencbdbgkenhalefipecmb. This will allow you to conduct in-browser accessibility checks.

Hope this helps! :-)

Cheers,

Andrew

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From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> on behalf of George Mamalakis <mamalos@eng.auth.gr>
Sent: 19 November 2015 11:09
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: EPrints themes + themes for people with disabilities

Thanks very much John!

I think bootstrap does fit our needs, and I'll definitely try to use it
for this purpose!

On 19/11/2015 12:45 μμ, John Salter wrote:
> I'm not sure how Bootstrap fits into any accessibility requirements - but it's probably worth knowing that this exists:
> https://github.com/eprintsug/bootstrap
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Field A.N.
> Sent: 19 November 2015 10:33
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: EPrints themes + themes for people with disabilities
>
> A Theme is essentially a site template with associated html assets (css, images, etc).  See http://bazaar.eprints.org/372/ for an example.
>
> I would think you could get a web designer to build and integrate the theme into EPrints, and then create the bazaar package yourself...
>
> I don't believe anyone is selling themes.  The problem is that most institutions brand their repositories using some form of their institutional template, and while these rebranding *could* be themes, there's no gain for the institution in doing that, and the themes would be valueless to anyone else.
>
> I like the idea of an accessible theme though.
>
> --
> Adam Field
> Business Relationship Manager and Community Lead
> EPrints Services
> +44 (0)23 8059 8814
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>
>
>
>
> On 19 Nov 2015, at 10:26, George Mamalakis wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Is there a "place" where one can buy EPrints themes? And if so, is there
>> any access to themes that make accessibility by people with disabilities
>> easier? Or is it very straight forward to change an EPrints theme and I
>> can outsource it to a web designer?
>>
>> Thanks all in advance!
>>
>> --
>> George Mamalakis
>>
>> IT and Security Officer,
>> Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
>> MSc (Imperial College of London)
>>
>> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
>>
>> phone number : +30 (2310) 994379
>>
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PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

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