# Accessibility of discourse forum to screen reader users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-of-discourse-forum-to-screen-reader-users/193012
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** screen-reader
**Created:** [June 7, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-of-discourse-forum-to-screen-reader-users/193012 "2021-06-07T17:58:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@abletec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/abletec)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-of-discourse-forum-to-screen-reader-users/193012/1 "2021-06-07T17:58:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-of-discourse-forum-to-screen-reader-users/193012/2 "2021-06-07T18:56:07Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-a-screen-reader/178105/59):
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> 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! @j.jaffeux is option for a solution for dropdo…