# \[Accesability\] Reply button not seen by screen readers

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2016年一月30日 15:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769 "2016-01-30T15:05:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Goosy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Goosy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Goosy)
#### Post date: [2016年一月30日 15:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769/1 "2016-01-30T15:05:54Z")

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Hi,

There are few users on my forum using screen readers and they’ve reported that the Reply button is not selectable for them anymore. While trying to navigate with I’ve noticed that this is indeed the case, the big blue Reply button is missed by the tab navigation.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/1/313e5e9722faf5d0c026ccd88e1fc94830b29cc2.png)

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016年一月30日 21:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769/2 "2016-01-30T21:40:18Z")

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Hmm… no repro for me. It does get focus, but the focus isn’t visible.

Also, you could have them use the keyboard shortcuts to do a topic reply (SHIFT + R).

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年一月30日 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769/3 "2016-01-30T23:05:38Z")

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I can confirm focus is not visible, this is something we want to fix, but it is selectable just tried here.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016年一月30日 23:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769/4 "2016-01-30T23:42:06Z")

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PR Submitted. I’m not seeing any side-effects, but the focus highlight on the reply button is still hard to see, the constrast isn’t great. It will need a specific rule for when the button also has the class `.btn-primary`

However, this makes it easy to see when the focus moves to that button via keyboard

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3989](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3989)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月21日 05:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accesability-reply-button-not-seen-by-screen-readers/38769/5 "2016-11-21T05:16:00Z")

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