Hyrax Accessibility Testing

Owned by Rebekah Kati

Last updated: Jan 25, 2024

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Attendees:

@Rebekah Kati
@Juliet Hardesty
@Thomas Scherz

What are our institutions requiring for web accessibility?

Indiana University

University has site license for Site Improve
- report ran in the fall, failures are mostly related to local customizations
- Hyrax-specific failures related to empty table on file information page, UV
University requires WCAG AA compliance

University of Cincinnati

University has mandated change management process which requires that all deploys pass a security and accessibility check
University has site license for AMP
University requires WCAG AA compliance
Accessibility audit performed on Hyrax 2: https://github.com/uclibs/ucrate/issues/201

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University has site license for Site Improve
Currently in process of running Site Improve report for WCAG AA

What should Hyrax require for web accessibility?

We are not sure what standard our community institutions require for web accessibility and would like to gather this information

@Rebekah Kati will ask in the February Hyrax Interest Group meeting, January Repository Managers meeting
Perhaps this could be a Partner meeting agenda item? @Rebekah Kati can ask Heather
Another option could be a community survey

How could web accessibility work be accomplished?

It would be helpful to automate the accessibility audit process as much as possible

Could the community pay for access to a tool like Site Improve? Alternatively, perhaps an institutional license for Site Improve might allow it to crawl nurax?
Are there open-source alternatives to Site Improve?

If we cannot automate the accessibility audit process, we can use browser plug-ins such as axe or WAVE

If the audit generates enough tickets, a community effort might be appropriate.