Adding custom element in footer

[leotp1412]

Hello,
We are running version 16.6 and would like to add a custom link to an accessibility statement in the footer.
Despite searching for quite a while, I could not find out how to do this.

Is this possible without running a new build process?

[mtneug]

Making this easily configurable is an open issue (see #6910).

Currently, you can easily add an imprint (Legal Disclosure) and privacy policy. I'm not sure if the terms of use work yet. Maybe you can add the accessibility statement in one of these pages?

The not so easy alternatives would be to either rebuild, as you said, or replace some of the returned HTML content through a reverse proxy. BTW you don't need to rebuild the whole of Opencast and could also only rebuild the Admin UI and serve it directly instead of Opencast doing it.

[gregorydlogan]

If you're strongly against rebuilding the relevant jars, you could also accomplish this via your reverse proxy (apache/nginx/etc)[1]. It's not as efficient as rebuilding the jar, but it does avoid modifying the source code.

1: https://github.com/gregorydlogan/opencast-project-infrastructure/blob/3f459e18bf42c933c8a78120c6af2fceb76dde03/ansible-demo-machines/roles/nginx/templates/nginx.conf#L192