Governance with a keyboard or screen reader

This page explains how to read Governance's scores, charts, and tables with a keyboard or a . For features that work on every screen, such as shortcuts, themes, and zoom, see Accessibility features. The Inspector has its own page: The Inspector with a keyboard or screen reader.

Move around a website

Press ⌘⇧F on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+F on Windows or Linux to search the pages and content of the website you are in.
When you open a check, page, or issue from a list, press J for the next item and K for the previous one, or use the Next item and Previous item buttons.

Read scores and charts

A score is read as a full sentence, not only as the number inside its circle. A site or module that has not been scored yet is read as "Not scored yet".
Each module's score comes with a table of the checks costing you most, with Check and Points columns. Each check's name is a link, and its Actions menu includes Create task from this check. The table says in text what the chart beside it shows.
Score history charts open as a table of their values with Expand. See Read a chart.

Tables of pages, PDFs, and checks

Tables sort from their column headings, and your screen reader is told which column is sorted and in which direction.
When a search or filter leaves nothing to show, "Nothing matches" is announced.
When the window is narrower than a desktop, including when you zoom in, each table turns into a list, so you do not have to scroll sideways.
On the Pages screen, the star beside a page is a button named Mark as key page or Remove from key pages. Page thumbnails are pictures only, and the page's name is always next to them.

Compliance and uptime

On Compliance, the coverage map is a picture, so screen readers skip it. The sentence under it names the places your requirements cover, and Your requirements lists each requirement as text, with its issues, score, and change.
On Uptime, the Last 30 days strip is a list, and a screen reader reads each day's date and status. A monitor's current status is shown with an icon and a word as well as a color.

Decisions

When you approve or ignore an issue, "Decision applied" is announced without moving your focus, with an Undo button. See Decisions and tasks.

Known issues we are working on

We fix accessibility issues as part of our regular releases. These are the open ones you are most likely to notice, with a way around them where there is one.

Chart details. The details that appear when you point at a chart need a mouse or trackpad. Use Expand for the chart's table.
Direction of a change. Where a rise or fall is shown as an arrow beside an amount, a screen reader may read only the amount.
Color-only status. On screen, a target's progress bar and each day in the uptime strip show their status by color. The percentage beside the bar is text, and a screen reader reads each day's status.
Coverage map status. The status of each place on the Compliance coverage map is not available as text. Your requirements lists the same requirements with their scores.
Decision errors. If a decision cannot be saved, the message on screen is not announced.

If one of these gets in your way, tell us.