I, too, am hoping that we can see a VPAT for Zotero in the nearer future. My university has had to become quite strict on software accessibility, and there really isn't another platform available to do social bibliographies with students quite like Zotero.

Hi Dan and Zotero team,

I'm a committed early user and supporter of Zotero--Dan, you might remember me as a participant in an early New Media History workshop at GMU that Roy and you ran. I've used Zotero to support research collaboration in courses and with other faculty over the years and recently presented a session on this topic at the 2023 "Teaching for Learning" (T4L) conference.

I like to second (third? fourth?) the above comments and questions about the critical importance of having a VPAT, Accessibility Conformance Report, or similar document in order to recommend and adopt Zotero in the current, modern institutional environment.

Previous questions about this in the forums go back to at least 2008:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3754/is-zotero-section-508-compliant

and more recently in 2019:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/76259/does-zotero-have-a-vpat
and 2020:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/85495/vpat-or-acr

In a presentation I gave to our IT staff recommending Zotero adoption on our campus, I noted improvements in Zotero's accessibility discussed here:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/71770/voice-reading-software
and
https://twitter.com/DaniJonesOcean/status/1504760625796464640

In the 2019 forum discussion, Dan noted that "We're in the process of porting Zotero to a new architecture, and we're hoping to address many accessibility issues at the same time. We're also working on a new version of the web library with much better accessibility support."

I appreciate that Zotero is developed and maintained by a small, non-profit entity. And I want to repeat my admiration for creating and sharing such a useful tool. However, I also have to report that these forum discussions were not enough to address the requirement for a VPAT at my university.

In the spirit of recent webinars by Brendan (see https://www.zotero.org/support/webinars) that included a call to assist with outreach, I can state that: The single most useful action Zotero developers can take to help with outreach now is to post a VPAT on your site. I'd be happy to connect you with staff at my university who can provide more details and examples.

We've been working with an outside auditor to evaluate and improve the accessibility of our software, and we can now say that Zotero 7 fully meets WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

You can find our completed VPAT on this page:

https://www.zotero.org/accessibility

Zotero is under constant development, so if you find an accessibility issue, please open a new thread in these forums so we can investigate.