Accessibility of discourse forum to screen reader users

[abletec (Jackie McBride)]

The combo boxes/dropdown lists are not accessible to screen reader users. The expected result is that after using alt down arrow to open the combo box/dropdown list, using up and down arrow keys should read the list of categories. The actual result is that this doesn’t occur.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Thanks for reporting it! We’re aware of this issue and it’s being worked on, there’s some additional detail here:

Discourse with a screen reader

At the moment we have the ARIA heading role on the entire row. I will move it so it is only on the essential information, the first column of the big table. (status, title, category, unread count and so on). Should I go a step further and just put the role on the topic title only? I guess this does make stuff a big faster as long as you remember to navigate left and right for information about topic status, category and so on. @celtichawk thanks! @joffreyjaffeux is option for a solution for d…