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Using pixels to define font sizes has an important problem: it ignores user settings. No matter whether users set their font size to 16px (the default font size in most browsers), to 18px (like I do) or to 32 px (like users with huge screens or with a visual disability); the size will not change. Even if most browsers can zoom to somehow overcome this issue, it's still annoying. And, in our case, we use relative units most of the time but absolute units in some places. This leads to situations where some of the text gets larger when users increase their font size while some of the text remains the same. Sometimes this results in titles having a smaller size than regular text below it. The solution is using relative units everywhere. Quoting the Web Accessibility Initiative guide for styles [1]: > The user needs to be able to resize the text to 200% of its size > anywhere on the page, without the text being cut off or overlapping > other text. The font size should be defined in relative units, such as > percentages, em or rem. It is not possible to zoom text set in pixels > independently from the rest of the page in some browsers. [1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/styling/
CONSUL
Citizen Participation and Open Government Application
This is the opensource code repository of the eParticipation website CONSUL, originally developed for the Madrid City government eParticipation website
Documentation
Check the ongoing documentation at https://docs.consulproject.org to learn more about how to start your own CONSUL fork, install it, customize it and learn to use it from an administrator/maintainer perspective.
CONSUL Project main website
You can access the main website of the project at http://consulproject.org where you can find documentation about the use of the platform, videos, and links to the community space.
Configuration for development and test environments
NOTE: For more detailed instructions check the docs
Prerequisites: install git, Ruby 2.6.7, CMake, pkg-config, shared-mime-info, Node.js and PostgreSQL (>=9.5).
git clone https://github.com/consul/consul.git
cd consul
bundle install
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
bin/rake db:create
bin/rake db:migrate
bin/rake db:dev_seed
RAILS_ENV=test rake db:setup
Run the app locally:
bin/rails s
Run the tests with:
bin/rspec
You can use the default admin user from the seeds file:
user: admin@consul.dev pass: 12345678
But for some actions like voting, you will need a verified user, the seeds file also includes one:
user: verified@consul.dev pass: 12345678
Configuration for production environments
See installer
Current state
Development started on 2015 July 15th. Code was deployed to production on 2015 september 7th to decide.madrid.es. Since then new features are added often. You can take a look at the current features at the project's website and future features at the Roadmap and open issues list.
License
Code published under AFFERO GPL v3 (see LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt)
Contributions
See CONTRIBUTING.md