Community communication forthcoming outlining the accessibility funding status, spending strategy, special funding call deadline, submitting tickets, audit requests
Kristi
3
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
Negative: SCOSS pledges
Laurie
4
25 min
Development
DSpace 7
Accessibility priorities
DSpace Development Fund accessibility campaign funding prioritization approved by Steering:
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.