# Progress on the screen reader accesibility issues for regular users on forums?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/progress-on-the-screen-reader-accesibility-issues-for-regular-users-on-forums/192148>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** accessibility, screen-reader\
**Created:** [May 31, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/progress-on-the-screen-reader-accesibility-issues-for-regular-users-on-forums/192148 "2021-05-31T07:40:58Z")\
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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:** [June 10, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/progress-on-the-screen-reader-accesibility-issues-for-regular-users-on-forums/192148/10 "2021-06-10T01:00:31Z")

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I just made this change (live on meta in 20 or so minutes)

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/13353>
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> Previously due to "rowheader" role we would read out topic titles twice.
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> This a…djusts it so we apply the heading role only to the topic link.
> In turn this makes navigation through topic lists more accurate (h) only
> lands you on topic links. It also reduces the amount of duplicate reading
> NVDA does.
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> Before:
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> Topic title link new topic link support link b481 link 19h link 2 button...
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> After:
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> Topic title link
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> This reduces noise, up and down once you land on a topic link can give you
> more context.

Can you let me know how it works out for you @thoeg ?

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