Hi Brian, As DSpace is a free, open source platform built/maintained by its community of users, there is no formal vendor / purchaser relationship around the software. So, we do not have a centrally maintained/distributed VPAT, as there's no software vendor (and in fact no centralized development team -- all effort is donated by the community of users and service providers). The closest entity to a vendor is DuraSpace, but we are more community coordinators and stewards of the software.
That said, the DSpace developer team (made up of community developers) do strive for alignment with accessibility guidelines and best practices (through our code contribution guidelines [1]). We also treat any reported accessibility issues as bugs, and work with the community to try and resolve them as soon as possible in a future release. It's possible specific institutions who use DSpace (or service providers who provide services on top of DSpace) have done a recent accessibility analysis or developed their own VPAT. If so, I hope they report back on this email thread as well. - Tim [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines#CodeContributionGuidelines-ContributionChecklist On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm a researcher looking into the accessibility of various IR software > packages, and was wondering if anyone knows if a VPAT exists for DSpace? > Looking through the wiki and some of the listserv archives (here and on > Tech Support) I can't find one. That being said, I'm certainly no DSpace > expert. Any help here would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks so much, > Brian McNeilly > McNeilly Accessibility Consulting > > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
