Accessibility statement instructions for instances

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Accessibility statement

Each instance acting in the public domain in the Germany/EU (internet + intranet) is responsible for taking care of it. The contact and legal contact depend on the base of the main responsible organization for the instance (mainly related to the domain and/or contract partner organization, self-hosting, -> hosting organization).

We, as BEXIS2, can (will try) provide the test result referring to the standard setting, which could be linked from the instance-specific accessibility statement. It is their responsibility to test/add results if they change the CSS colors, footer, header, or add own modules.

The test and the statements need to be updated yearly. Self-testing is enough (no paid testing by a company is required except you need the certificate for your product - if the customer enforces, you have to go the paid way). Testing all pages on all levels is unnecessary, but you should select a representative selection. User content is a big problem as it is outside your influence.

Institutions' websites are checked randomly (~3 years), and they get a list of improvements back—so far, no big "law" issues.

Our overall main goal during the development is to avoid accessibility issues as long as it is done with a reasonable amount of effort.

• language English is fine (will be verified by the university team during the next days)
• add as todo to installation instructions (also add adjustment of contact details)
• add customizable accessibility.html (like footer.html)
• add instructions
• yearly reminder (for us ...and users?)

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• Create a test and share it via documents. (Which format?)