Hi Gabriel, 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).
That said, the DSpace community developer team do strive for alignment with WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines and best practices (see 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. Last year, we had a third-party (Deque) accessibility review of DSpace 7's UI. At the time, it found a number of accessibility issues which we've been working through in priority order. Major/Critical issues have all since been resolved, but there are less severe issues which we are working through little by little. Those can be found in our GitHub tickets with the "accessibility" label. https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+accessibility+label%3Aaccessibility (And we welcome volunteers as well to help us continue to close out these tickets.) 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 (or VPAT template). If so, I hope they report back on this email thread as well. Tim [1] https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines#CodeContributionGuidelines-ContributionChecklist ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Gabriel Galson <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 2:09 PM To: DSpace Community <[email protected]> Subject: [dspace-community] DSpace VPAT Group- Our institution needs to locate an accessibility VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) for DSpace versions 5,6, and/or 7. Are these available? If not, what's the most complete documentation available on dspace's accessibility features? Thank you for your help! -Gabe -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/56c1a9c7-ce65-4f36-882e-8081b3f450c8n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/56c1a9c7-ce65-4f36-882e-8081b3f450c8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/PH0PR22MB32744768EB88B947424E886BED2E9%40PH0PR22MB3274.namprd22.prod.outlook.com.
