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What productivity software works best for people who are visually impaired/blind? (self.Blind)
submitted by holisk
Hi all,
My organization is going through a change right now and we are considering the possibility of getting a productivity software. We need a hub so everyone knows what is going on. One of our criteria is that it has to be accessible for people who are visually impaired as we aim to be inclusive as possible. We would like it cloud based or multi-platform. I emailed my top choice, ToDoist.com, but no response. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or experiences with different software?
My organization is going through a change right now and we are considering the possibility of getting a productivity software. We need a hub so everyone knows what is going on. One of our criteria is that it has to be accessible for people who are visually impaired as we aim to be inclusive as possible. We would like it cloud based or multi-platform. I emailed my top choice, ToDoist.com, but no response. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or experiences with different software?
fastfinge 2 points 6y ago
I just did some brief testing with ToDoist with NVDA in chrome. It's full of unlabeled links and images. They'd have to do a fair bit of work to become accessible.
Personally, I just use google keep. It's fully accessible, and can do shared notes, checklists, etc. A few years ago, a much larger project I was working on was using dotproject. However, it looks like that software isn't maintained anymore.
Could you run a wiki and handle tasks that way? If so, both DokuWiki and MediaWiki are fully accessible.
Personally, I just use google keep. It's fully accessible, and can do shared notes, checklists, etc. A few years ago, a much larger project I was working on was using dotproject. However, it looks like that software isn't maintained anymore.
Could you run a wiki and handle tasks that way? If so, both DokuWiki and MediaWiki are fully accessible.
k00l_m00se 2 points 6y ago
Personally, I haven't had much luck with google, other than Play Music. It's probably because I have to use drive, but their accessibility is horrible
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
Drive is perfect, as far as I can tell. I use it daily to share and work on files with others. In Windows with Chrome or Firefox and NVDA, it works fine. The apps for Windows, IOS, and Mac all work well. The only place it doesn't work is with Voiceover and Safari on mac.
k00l_m00se 2 points 6y ago
Interesting. I couldn't get it to work with JAWS, but I was also running it on a glorified toaster. It works fine for me as long as I'm not in a document. I haven't tried NVDA, but JAWS and VoiceOver do not take kindly to working on a file in it from my experience
fastfinge 1 points 6y ago
Interestingly, looking at the help, it looks like the only screen readers google officially supports are NVDA with Firefox and Chrome, and chromevox on the chromebook. So I guess everything just works fine for me because I happen to use Google's supported configuration.
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