Accessibility Statement of UTUPub-Repository of the University of Turku

This accessibility statement applies to the UTUPub-Repository of the University of Turku. This statement was written on 16^th September 2020. Its English translation was published on 4^th December 2020. The statement was last updated on 20^th March 2023.

Web address of UTUPub: https://www.utupub.fi/

Contact information: julkaisut(at)utu.fi.

The digital repository UTUPub is the institutional repository of the University of Turku established in 2007. The repository also contains materials that have been retrospectively digitised. The oldest materials are from the 17^th century.

Accessibility Assessment of the Digital Service

The University of Turku is responsible for the accessibility of the publications stored in the repository and has also conducted the accessibility assessment of the publications.

The National Library of Finland is responsible for and has evaluated the accessibility of the user interface.

Non-accessible content

The repository also contains content that is not within the scope of the applicable legislation.

Accessibility legislation does not apply to content stored in the repository prior to 23^rd September 2018. The content is not updated, nor is it needed for handling unfinished matters with the authorities.
The repository contains self-archived publications that have initially been published elsewhere. These publications are not produced, funded, or supervised by the University of Turku, and therefore accessibility legislation does not apply to them.

Accessibility Status of the Service

This website is compliant with critical accessibility requirements. The website is not yet fully compliant with all the requirements.

Accessibility of the Publications

Some of the repository’s contents do not meet the accessibility requirements in accordance with the AA level criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. The following deficiencies have been noted in the attachments uploaded after 23^rd September 2018:

Styles that would accurately describe the document structure might not have been used in the publications. Therefore, screen readers might not scan the document correctly.
Table formatting has been used in some publications, e.g. in the summaries, which screen readers do not necessarily convert.
In some publications, the images and tables do not have an alt text and/or the contents of the image or table are not described in the text.
In some publications, the language of the publication is not defined in the file.
In some publications, the font is not necessarily accessible.
In some publications, there might be problems in detecting colour contrasts.
In some publications, such as doctoral dissertations or Master’s theses, there might be attachments from third parties, such as research articles published elsewhere by publishers. The accessibility requirements do not apply to contents from third parties. Research articles published elsewhere are not part of the materials produced by the University of Turku.

Editing publications with accessibility deficiencies into accessible documents

If necessary, the University of Turku strives to deliver a non-accessible document in another, accessible format to the user according to their individual needs.

The University of Turku is constantly developing accessibility and seeks solutions to solve deficiencies and to bring publications up to the standard required by the law.

Accessibility of the User Interface

The following deficiencies have been found in assessing the accessibility of the User Interface:

Perceivable

Deficiencies in the accessibility of forms and images

Some of the images lack text alternatives. Some fields on the input form are missing labels (label elements). The input form is visible only to signed-in users.