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Accessible Footer

1 Initial Problem

The Success Criterion "1.3.1 Info and Relationships" respectively "Prüfschritt 1.3.1b HTML-Strukturelemente für Listen" requires that the HTML of collections of similar items are done as ul, ol. 
Explicitly this criterion makes an exception for footers IF the footer comprises three or less elements.

In ILIAS 7 the maximally loaded footer comprises

• Permanent Link powered by ILIAS (v7.0 beta4 2021-03-16)
• Legal Notice
• Contact Technical Support
• Translation
• Accessibility Control Concept
• Report Accessibility Issue

Even if one would sherwedly argue that the Permanent Link is an animal of its own kind, there are 5 items in the footer and thus the footer must be an unordered list.

2 Conceptual Summary

The elements in the footer become an unordered html-list.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Footer

3.2 User Interface Details

No visible change.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

3.4 Accessibility Implications

Making the footer an unordered html list will remove a fail in the BITV test.

4 Technical Information

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5 Privacy

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6 Security

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7 Contact

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8 Funding

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9 Discussion

Schmidt-Sielex, Wolfgang [WSS] 2023-07-20: Feature has been discussed by a sub-group of SIG accessibility and set to 'outdated'. Furthermore the suggested feature 'Revamping Footer with Link-Groups'suggests a renewal of the footer. The sub-group left a comment within that request to keep and improve the accessibility within the footer.

10 Implementation

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Test Cases

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