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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Mar 15, 2018 7:41PM

I want to broaden a question I posted earlier with too narrow a focus.
Other things being equal, how would you rate the degree of WCAG 2.0 compliance of various non-commercial library repository systems. I'm thinking of systems like DSpace and Fedora and Digital Commons. On the web I found comparisons from years ago, but nothing up to date.
We are actually quite interested in using DSpace, but they cannot guarantee compliance because of the way contributors are free to contribute code without a centralized check for conformance to DSpace development standards. (The standards do require WCAG 2.0 compliance, but "enforcement" is through the bug tracking system, with resultant delays in getting out bug fixes.) Is that approach considered acceptable, generally?
Anyone have relevant experience or suggestions? Pointer to a recent analysis?
Thanks in advance,
Alan