I am working with a user who must access Discourse using the JAWS screen reader. Our first attempt was slow as the JAWS shortcuts somehow interfered with those of Discourse. Is there a tutorial or any advice on how to make this work smoothly? It looks like the Discourse shortcuts cover much of what…

Screenreaders capture a lot of keys for their own navigation shortcuts by default (virtual cursor mode), which prevents ours from being used. This mode can be toggled off, in JAWS you need to use the JAWS key + z (depending on settings this might be insert + z or caps lock + z). Doing that should g…

So we did turn it off using the JAWS key + z but then using the Discourse shortcuts did not produce the audio readouts required. (This person relies entirely on the verbal readouts.) Is there a way to have the Discourse shortcuts take precedence but allow JAWS to verbalize the aria codings? Re: su…

[image] happyhappy: Is there a way to have the Discourse shortcuts take precedence but allow JAWS to verbalize the aria codings? Good question! our expectations so far have been that people using screenreaders will not use our shortcuts and default to the screenreader navigation. So the gap h…

[image] awesomerobot: n arrow keys to go from individual item to individual item. Is that what’s not working? I believe we did, but I am checking again to be sure.

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happyhappy June 14, 2026, 4:54pm 5

I believe we did, but I am checking again to be sure.

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