You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
We’ve been keen users of Hackpad here in the UK Government for a few years now. We would like to migrate to Dropbox Paper, but it’s not currently accessible using a screen-reader.
We have vision impaired users who rely on screen-readers and we have a responsibility to support them.
We’ve looked at the code and the main issue appears to be that the application role is applied to the entire UI. This causes screen readers to stop intercepting keyboard commands and pass them back through to the browser instead.
The upshot is that a screen reader is stripped of its usual shortcuts and navigational commands, making the app unusable unless scripting is used to provide the expected keyboard support.
Collaboration tools like Paper can have a huge impact on the lives of people with access needs, but only if they're built to support the full range of technologies that people use.
It makes business and marketing sense to have features accessible across the whole community
Let's make it accessible and available for everyone.
Having seen first hand the positive impact and difference in making a website, application or service accessible I implore you to do so with Paper.
I strongly endorse any action that will make dropbox features accessible to its disabled clients.
We'd really like to use Dropbox across government to share our work. But we can't because of the issue with screenreaders.
Please fix it.
We collaborate with our colleagues using screen readers. Please let them come into Dropbox Paper too, otherwise it's not usable for us. Please fix.
Hi, I work as part of the NHS Beta project in England.
We have an interest in both being involved with the UK Government use of Paper (if it can happen) and using it for our own documentation.
However at the moment, the issues with assistive technology will also prevent using the software.
Let us know if we can be of any help.
Cheers,
Mat Johnson- Ed
Dropbox Staff
Hi all,
Thank you so much for voicing your concerns here. Accessibility is very important to many of you and this is definitely something we have in our radar. I've passed this thread as part of the feedback to our the Paper team.
I'll let you know when I have updates.
Thank you
Paper needs to be accessible. Let's do it, Dropbox!
Please fix this so we can use and recommend DropBox Paper.
