All pages in the DSpace User Interface should have automated accessibility tests

[tdonohue]

Description

As of #2711, the following User Interface pages have automated accessibility scanning (via Deque's Axe tool) enabled:

• All current, anonymous-access pages (at least that I'm aware of)
• Submission / MyDSpace / Workflow pages
• Community/Collection/Item Edit pages (all tabs)
• Login, new user registration & user menu
• Admin sidebar

The following pages are believed to be missing accessibility scanning:

• All admin pages linked of Admin Sidebar not listed above.
• Any additional features (or new features) not listed above

Proposed solution

All DSpace user interface pages / modals should have an automatic accessibility scan enabled.

• This requires building a Cypress e2e test script for that page (if one doesn't exist), loading the page and running the testA11y() function on the page similar to the examples in #2711
• If the testA11y() script fails (because accessibility issues exist on the page), then either the issues should be fixed or a temporary exclusion can be added to the testA11y() script until those issues can be fixed. For examples of exclusions see `submission.cy.ts`

This ticket need not be solved by a single PR. In fact, it may be easier to implement these improvements over several PRs. Therefore, multiple people can claim this ticket provided they are clear about which pages they are working on.

Related work

Related to the work in #2711, which builds on some earlier automatic accessibility scanning.

[atarix83]

@tdonohue @hostle83

4science is interested in working on this task. In order to resolve the problem we're going to add an e2e test where required. Where not going to add any validation test in the new e2e created expect for the accessibility scanning.

Estimation is about 50h including any possible fixes for accessibility issues detected when the e2e test is created

[tdonohue]

@atarix83 : I think it's perfectly OK to only create the accessibility validation for the new e2e tests. That also has the benefit of creating a "basic scaffolding" for all pages to have more thorough e2e tests in the future (as part of a future effort).

Assigned to you and adding estimate details as a label.