[Athen] airtable

[Monica Olsson]

I found this conversation about accessibility conformance on Airtable's community forum<https://community.airtable.com/t/airtable-accessibility/26834/7>. The conversation is between someone named Bill French who I believe works for the company and Michael Cyr, who is very active with the Educate IT Accessibility group.

Better get your bowl of popcorn out, heh.

Here is a notable quote from the conversation by Michael from February 2020:

"I tested the basic airtable DB table view/edit screen. I compared it to the WCAG2.1 level AA standard, section 2.1, Keyboard Accessibility, using the NVDA screen reader. It’s completely inaccessible, that is,keyboard-only control does not provide corresponding screen-reader accessible text that matches what is visually displayed. I test a lot of applications. Total lack of keyboard and screen reader support is unusual these days. I also tested the read-only view of the table from a shareable link. Same lack of support.

I’ve also received a response from airtable. They do not have a conformance report. I’m asking for clarification about what they DO know about the accessibility of their DB product."


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thanks somuch this helps immensely


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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 1:27 AM Debbie Krahmer <dkrahmer at colgate.edu<mailto:dkrahmer at colgate.edu>> wrote:
A conference I attended in March or April 2021 used Air tables for the schedule, and I couldn't access it with NVDA beyond the very first two items listed, and even then it didn't read all the information (I got titles of the session but not days or times). Search didn't work, scroll didn't work, tabbing didn't work. The conference sent me a spreadsheet instead.

Thanks,
D.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 8:37 PM Steve Green <steve.green at testpartners.co.uk<mailto:steve.green at testpartners.co.uk>> wrote:

One of our clients had several Airtables embedded in their website when we tested it in September 2020. We reported non-conformances with the following WCAG success criteria:



1.1.1 – non-text content

1.3.2 – meaningful sequence

2.1.1 – keyboard navigation

2.4.3 – focus order

2.4.4 – link purpose in context

1.4.3 – colour contrast

1.4.4 – resize text

2.4.7 – focus visible



I don’t know if this is representative of all Airtable output because we did not have access to the authoring environment to create content of our own. The client has since removed all the Airtables from their website rather than attempting to fix them, so I suspect that remediation was not possible.



Steve Green

Managing Director

Test Partners Ltd





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hello: does any one have information about airtable accessibility the quick search on the web sowed the sails pick i want the  facts is it or is it not accessible or is it accessible with lots of work thanks. i need a fast turnaround on this one i i appreciate any help thanks lucy



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