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• We use design principles and coding standards informed by accessibility concerns as documented in User Interface Design Principles & Accessibility. 
• We run automated accessibility testing scanning tools (Axe by Deque) across the user interface in our end-to-end tests (run via Cypress). These automated tests run for every GitHub pull request submitted to our user interface codebase.
• We also contracted with Deque for an accessibility audit of the DSpace 7 application in Spring 2021. Their feedback was used to inform our design and coding standards.
• We ask institutions who use DSpace to share any of their own accessibility testing results with DSpace developers. Issues found are turned into bug tickets for developers to address in upcoming DSpace releases.
  • If your institution has accessibility testing results to share, please contact Tim Donohue or anyone on our DSpace Steering Group.

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We consider all accessibility issues to be bugs.  Our goal is to achieve and maintain WCAG 2.1 level AA compliance.  We encourage you to report any issues you find, as we regularly improve accessibility in our major and bug-fix minor releases.

If you locate an accessibility issue, please report it in our User Interface ticketing system at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues  If you have any supporting documentation or recommendations for fixing the issues, please include them in the ticket. This will help our volunteer developers to analyze the issue more quickly.  

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