Whakerexa - A minimalist and lightweight web kit for accessible contents

Overview

Whakerexa offers CSS frameworks and JavaScript to generate an HTML content.
It is intended to be as simple as possible to make accessible web content, and to minimize the use of CSS classes for enhancing the readability of HTML code.

It was designed to be easily customizable, allowing users to adjust properties such as fonts, colors, borders, etc., effortlessly. Most of the properties are stored into variables which makes possible to re-define them, then to obtain a custom different style, enabling users to achieve a unique style easily.

It can be combined with the use of WhakerPy, an open source library to create dynamic HTML content; it's a light web application framework.

Features

• Lightweight and semantic
• Light or dark mode
• Normal or high-Contrast mode
• Easy use and customization
• Human-readable: could be extended or composed for your specific needs
• No extra library or framework needed

License

Whakerexa is under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

Install Whakerexa

Whakerexa is a ZIP archive. You just need to unpack-it.

Quick Start

For the use of the proposed CSS/JS frameworks, take a look at the HTML files in the docs folder.

Projects using Whakerexa

Whakerexa was initially developed within SPPAS https://sppas.org. It was extracted from its original software in 2024 by the author to lead its own life as standalone tool.

Websites

It is used by the website of the "AutoCuedSpeech" project at https://auto-cuedspeech.org and the website of SPPAS https://sppas.org.

Applications

It is used by the setup application of SPPAS software tool.

Documentations

It is used by "ClammingPy", a tool to create automatically python documentation https://clamming.sf.net.

Author/Copyright

Copyright (C) 2023-2024 - Brigitte Bigi - contact@sppas.org
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France.

See the AUTHORS file for the full list of contributors.

Support

Whakerexa was initially developed within https://auto-cuedspeech.org project, generously funded by FIRAH (Fondation Internationale de Recherche Appliquée sur le Handicap), https://www.firah.org/.

Changes

Version 0.1

• Initial version, extracted from SPPAS 4.17.
• Added or updated, and tested JavaScripts
• Updated CSS frameworks to be more generic
• Added HTML documentation of the CSS frameworks
• Added a CSS/JS framework for playing a video in a popup dialog

Version 0.2 - latest

• Added menu.css, a solution for an accessible responsive sticky menubar
• Added layout.css, a set of classes to easily organize HTML content
• Added accordion.js
• Added code.css

Version 0.3 - develop

to do:

• documentation of layouts
• add variable 'border-radius'
• in layout: horizontal cards, the rise-panel (accordion) based on details/summary elements instead of article element.