Accessibility report for University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

This report is based on a default material flavour installation of the EPrints user group branch of EPrints 3.4 using the data imported by the testdata/bin/import_test_data script. Any rebranding to EPrints or significant customisation is liable to significantly alter the results shown below.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Design System
• False or Unavoidable Alerts
• Test Results
  • Public-facing Pages
  • Non-public Administration Pages
  • Miscellaneous Page
• Summary

Introduction

This report is intended to present the results of testing University of Hertfordshire Research Archive to assess its accessibility compliance. This has been undertaken with the use of the Chrome Extension of the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool, in addition to the accessibility audits provided by Google Lighthouse and Deque's axe DevTools via Chrome DevTools.

Where there are known issues, the comments section should describe the reasons and where appropriate how these issues are likely be addressed. For more details on planned future accessibility improvements, please see our accessibility roadmap.

Design System

This repository has been built using Google's Material Design. This design system is built with accessibility in mind.

False or Unavoidable Alerts

During testing, we found several alerts that are either confirmed to not cause issues by manual testing or unavoidable due to the nature of a repository. They are not included in the figures for the results.

The WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool results in an alert on all pages concerning device dependent event handlers on the login and search buttons in the top navbar. Manual testing has confirmed that while an 'onclick' is present, it is possible to action these buttons using the keyboard only. This alert is being returned because WAVE does not recognise the button function as a link.

As mentioned in the accessibility statement, there are many file types present that cause alerts with WAVE, such as PDFs. As the purpose of a repository is, in part, to present such files it is not possible to replace these with HTML versions as is recommended best practice.

Test Results

Test last run on 19 May 2023

Public-facing Pages

Non-public Administration Pages

Miscellaneous Pages

Summary

Based on testing a default publication flavour installation of EPrints using standard test data, all tested public-facing and back-end administration pages currently report no errors or contrast errors. These pages may have one or more alerts. If so, these alerts are considered acceptable and/or essential for the functioning of EPrints as an Open Access repository and will fall into one of the following categories:

1. Links to PDF documents.
2. Duplications in the test or third-party data leading to alerts about shared alternative texts for nearby images.
3. Reports of suspicious link texts that are not considered suspicious within the context of where they appear.
4. Apparent missing table captions due to a feature in EPrints to make clear a table has no items rather than leaving the table empty.

It should be noted that whilst Chromium's WAVE extension that was used for testing. It did not report any contrast errors for any of the tested public-facing and back-end administration pages. However, Firefox's WAVE extension has been seen to report some contrast errors. Firefox's contrast errors are due to its default setting for the background colour of select form elements.

Miscellaneous pages like those for OAI metadata harvesting have been tested and found to have issues with tables being reported as being used for layout when they are genuinely being used as tables. However, as these pages are not intended for general human use, there is no intention to further address these issues.