SiteImprove revealed dspace code accessibility Issues

[emj73]

We ran a SiteImprove audit on our dev dpsace 7 and the following issues were revealed that target dspace out of the box code: [https://cornell.box.com/s/xo17pd4sfcrd314dul32w70lbdqsg8i8]

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thanks for considering :)

[emj73]

for ease, here is the info from the doc copied:

Headings are not structured

• Headings are out of order.

https://demo7.dspace.org/items/a1283d9b-8702-46ee-acb8-1d19302349b2

Item title is H2. Next heading is H5 (Files, Date, Author, etc.).

Element IDs are not unique

• The element search-container-navbar appears twice in the header code.

https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/tree/main/src/app/search-navbar

https://demo7.dspace.org/items/a1283d9b-8702-46ee-acb8-1d19302349b2

State or property not supported

• Aria-disabled attribute is not supported on an tag in this context. This is on disabled links in pagination.

https://demo7.dspace.org/search?query=history

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Button missing a text alternative

• There is a button that does not actually display in this view, but the HTML is still there. It comes before the “Show more” button in the code. If you run the WAVE plugin on this page it shows four instances of empty buttons.

https://demo7.dspace.org/community-list

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[emj73]

some of the above comment cut off:

Button missing a text alternative

• There is a button that does not actually display in this view, but the HTML is still there. It comes before the “Show more” button in the code. If you run the WAVE plugin on this page it shows four instances of empty buttons.

https://demo7.dspace.org/community-list

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[tdonohue]

At a quick glance, I believe many of these issues overlap with existing, open accessibility tickets: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+accessibility+label%3Aaccessibility

We are aware there are a number of buttons with missing text, non-unique elements, etc. We've slowly been fixing those in page-specific accessibility tickets.

[tdonohue]

In testing #2683, I've reanalyzed this ticket.

I believe all the issues in this ticket have now been fixed on main and dspace-7_x except for the empty buttons issue on /community-list. I'm going to split that out into a new ticket, as it's the only remaining issue. Everything else here is no longer reproducible.

[tdonohue]

Closing this ticket as Fixed (as of 7.6.2). The remaining issue has been moved to #2697.