Community communication forthcoming outlining the accessibility funding status, spending strategy, special funding call deadline, submitting tickets, audit requests
Kristi
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10 min
Financials
Quarterly Financial Report: Oct 1, 2023-Dec 31, 2023
Overall, it is positive to FY23-23 budget (financial plan) at half way point of fiscal year.
Variances include:
Positive for DSpace: service provider fees, membership dues, travel, SCOSS expenses (due to position vacancy), and IDC
Creation of more automated accessibility scanning/tests (similar to this PR from Tim: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2711). The goal is to have this scanning performed for all pages in DSpace, but it must be added page by page.
As these tests are added, remediation may be required on pages which do not pass the automated tests.
Finally, if funding remains or additional funding is contributed, Steering will use those to hire Deque (or a similar accessibility assessment firm) to perform a new, formal accessibility assessment of DSpace.
Accessibility issues can be reported as tickets to be addressed in future releases. If institutions perform accessibility scans, they are welcome to share those results with Tim. But, to ensure issues are resolved more rapidly, we recommend creating tickets.
1) Theme: Community Engagement Attendance at monthly meetings: 15-20 people since September, 27 at February meeting
- provide more opportunities for community engagement via DCAT meetings - orientation to DCAT and community participation - how to get involved - how to report issues - proactive communication with national user groups - communication gap - planning and documentation - meeting planning, DCAT Vice Chair Paige Morgan (University of Delaware), build sustainability and continuity - document processes/procedures for DCAT - highlight wiki content of interest to repository managers - project charge - steps for feedback and approval
2) DCAT Testathon Preparation Group (Iryna Kuchma EIFL and Priscilla Carmini University of Waterloo) - offer collaborative testing sessions
3) DSpace UX Testing led by Erica Johns
* o Spring 2024 = time to develop tests * o Fall 2024 = time to distribute tests to institutions/orgs * o Winter/spring 2025 = synthesize feedback/findings and make recommendations to DSpace dev/leadership