SpeechKeyboard first
Every link, button and disclosure can be reached and operated with a keyboard, and the focus ring is a visible three-pixel outline rather than something removed for looks.
Accessibility
What works,
and what
does not yet.
Speech is a tool for people who would rather speak than type, so being hard to use would be a strange way to fail. Here is where we actually are.
On this website
Things you can
check yourself.
Every item below is verifiable by opening this page, which is the only kind of accessibility claim worth printing.
Skip to content
The first thing a keyboard reaches on every page is a skip link past the navigation.
Real structure
Headings are headings, navigation is a nav landmark, the comparison tables are tables with row headers. A screen reader gets the shape of the page, not a wall of text.
Motion is optional
If your system asks for reduced motion, the animations and smooth scrolling stop. Nothing on these pages depends on movement to be understood.
Text contrast
Body text and buttons are kept at the usual 4.5:1 minimum against their background. It is why our buttons are not the brighter blue the apps use, which would have failed it.
It survives a small screen
Every page reflows to a phone without a sideways scroll. Wide tables scroll inside their own frame instead of dragging the page with them.
Where we fall short
The list we
would rather
not print.
We have not had an independent audit, and we do not claim a WCAG conformance level. The apps have had less attention than this website: the Mac app carries VoiceOver labels on its setup flow, but we have not tested the whole app end to end with a screen reader, and we have not tested at all with switch access or voice control. The dictation shortcut is a held modifier, which is hard for anyone who cannot hold two keys, and there is no alternative to it yet.
If any of this stops you using Speech, that is the most useful mail we can get. It moves things up the list.
SupportNo audit yetAnd no conformance claim until there is one.
Held shortcutA one-press alternative is not built. It should be.
Tell us what
gets in the way.
Specifics beat a standard. What you were doing, on what, and what happened.