Accessibility Timeline and Roadmap

This page describes the timeline of Accessibility developments for EPrints and the further plans for improving Accessibility into the future.

EPrints 3.4.2 released (July 2020)

Ensures all pages accessible without login are accessibility compliant, except where this would directly affect them from fulfilling their function as an Open Access archive, (e.g. links to PDF documents). This includes:

1. Fully static pages. Such as the Home, About, About EPrints, Repository Policies, Accessibility, etc. pages.
2. Standard form-based pages. Such as Simple Search, Advanced Search, Create Account pages.
3. Pages generated from user-generated content. Such as browse views, abstract pages, result pages from searches, etc. Assuming typical user-generated content.

EPrints 3.4.3 released (April 2021)

Ensures all commonly used pages accessible to only logged in users are accessibility compliant, when using typical user-generated content. This includes:

1. Manage deposits page
2. View and edit pages for deposits
3. Review pages for deposits
4. Manage records page and its subsidiary "Manage [dataset]" pages
5. Admin Menu
6. Create, view and edit pages for users
7. View and edit pages for saved searches
8. Admin search pages for items, issues, users and history
9. Repository status page
10. Create user page
11. EPrints Bazaar
12. Send test email page
13. Database schema page
14. Storage manager page
15. Phrase editor and editing phrases pages
16. Edit subject pages
17. Manage metadata fields pages

EPrints 3.4.4 released (August 2022)

Incremental modifications to further improve accessibility changes made in 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 and fixes any snags associated with these changes. In particular, improving the functionality to allow the number of names displayed in a citation to be limited but expanded on request.

EPrints 3.4.5 released (May 2023)

Further incremental changes and snag fixes. In particular, the use of fieldsets and legends in search and input forms to make them easier to style with CSS.

EPrints 3.4.6 released (August 2024)

Further incremental changes and snag fixes. Including increased usage or appropriate ARIA attributes for elements.

EPrints 3.4.7 released (August 2025)

Further incremental changes and snag fixes.

1. Removing dangling ARIA describedby attributes for fields with no help text.
2. Ensuring unique element IDs for common actions in different tabs.
3. Adding /cgi/register to the Accessibility report.

EPrints 3.5 (Coming soon)

Improving the accessibility of PDF documents uploaded to EPrints repositories. In particular, tools to insert metadata and accessibility features into uploaded files.