How can Trello be more accessible?

[Fiona Kelner]

I have a number of colleagues using Trello and I would like to use it with my team. Unfortunately I have not been able to find anything encouraging about accessibility. Can you use Trello with Assistive Technology such as Screen Readers, text-to-speech and speech-to-text. I was able to find keyboard shortcuts but users also need to be able to navigate with voice. Compatibility with Dragon dictate is important. Has anyone had any succcess? 

[Felix · Accepted solution]

We have a bunch of information about accessibility in Atlassian products here: https://www.atlassian.com/accessibility - the Trello VPAT might help you determine the level of accessibility that currently exists.

[Fiona Kelner]

I would hope that as the VPAT was written nearly 3 ears ago some of the issues it highlighted would now be fixed? Especially as these issues would cause problems for users of assistive technology

[Felix]

Totally fair @Fiona Kelner - I've brought this up with the team internally, so we can improve how often we update the VPAT, and make it easier to find!

Anecdotally, I can tell you that our engineers take a lot of care and consideration when making changes to Trello, to ensure we're improving the accessibility of the application. One recent example of a massive improvement in accessibility, especially for screen readers and keyboard navigability is the navigation changes.

Given these changes are recent (released over the last 6 months or so), they're not reflected in the published VPAT.

[Fiona Kelner]

Great to hear. Thanks for the reply

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Fiona Kelner , here is one earlier post that speaks to this - How-accessible-is-Trello . I don't know that it will have any direct answers but hopefully it will lead you in the right direction.

[Fiona Kelner]

Thanks jack. Unfortunately that post does not answer my query and is what I refer to when saying I cannot find anything encouraging about accessibility.