Compliance with EAA Accessibility laws

[david cockrell]

Hi Confluence Experts,

I have some concerns related to the new accessibility laws that are planed to take effect in June 2025

We did some tests with our Confluence instance Data Center V8.5.20

We have installed NVDA Screen Reader (open source utility for blind and vision impaired)

After launching the Screen Reader, we navigated through Confluence pages and plugins via keyboard and tab key 

We noticed that some buttons are not pronounced correctly (i.e. ‘Publish’ button has incorrect label and ‘Cancel’ button is recognized as link instead of button) 

We noticed that when navigating within Confluence plugins using the tab key the navigation jumps outside the plugin into Confluence Editor options.

I have a list of issues that we found. 

I wonder if Atlassian has a plan to resolve these issues before the law takes effect 

I will be happy to get any info regarding this topic and any plans in this direction. 

Thanks,
David.

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

Hi @david cockrell ,

Interesting topic for sure. I'm mostly working on cloud so I can't comment much, but I could point out to Atlassian Support related to any regulations and laws that take (or have taken) place.
I know we 'struggled' with DORA a bit and the support team did send us some, let's say, not public documents related to Atlassian way of addressing specific items related to the regulation.
It might be the same/similar case when it comes to EAA 👀

On the other hand, it's DC we're talking about and as we all know, things and issues get addressed relatively slowly compared to cloud platform 🫤

Anyway, I'm keen to see if anyone else has some additional insights related to this act.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Dan Breyen]

Hi @david cockrell I found this Atlassian Accessibility document which may be of use to you.  It also references an Accessibility Portal where you possibly could ask more specific questions on Accessibility.

Hope that helps.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Dan Breyen Your link doesn't work—maybe it is incomplete? Can you update it please?

[Dan Breyen]

Whoops!  Sorry about that.  All fixed now.