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From: JP Jamous
Date: Oct 15, 2016 11:47AM

I have worked directly with their A11Y team. I was more focused on their Wiki or Crowd system, which had lots of issues. It integrates with JIRA big time.

The whole system is jacked up, because it was obtained from different places as modules and put together. What they are doing now is that they are planning on re-engineering Wiki from scratch with the new major version to ensure full accessibility with screen readers and Braille displays. They have had too many clients complaining about this.

I have not had that many issues with JIRA at work. Wiki is a different ball game and I work with Wiki more.

Personally, I don't recommend wasting time on new JAWS scripts since they will be re-engineering the UI from scratch to accommodate screen readers. If you use JAWS 17 along with some tricks, you can be almost as productive as your counterparts. I have been doing so for the last 8 months even they did upgrade our system, which changed the template for Wiki.

For example, rather than reading links associated with a parent page at the end of the parent page, you now have a treeview that shows the child pages as links. The treeview is toward the top of the DOM. I use Insert + F7 to pull that list up and navigate to what I want. Of course, the ideal way, would be for JAWS to recognize it as a Windows Explorer treview or dropdown menus, but it doesn't.

Yet, we are still running V5 something. So we are not up to 6 at my company.

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Yes.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:06 PM JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Do you mean Atlassian JIRA?
>
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> I started using jira at my office. I have played with it enough to
> know how work needs to make it accessible but I think it's possible.
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:18 AM _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > My former employer used Tryton which is a fork of OpenErp. As far as
> > accessibility, the client/admin section is written in GtK. This
> > means it's not accessible on Windows and prolly also not on Mac. It
> > should
> > *generally* work on Linux though.
> >
> > The developers did struggle somewhat with making readonly fields
> > actually read out. They were using code that made them rather
> > unreadble back when I was still there, but they were working with a
> > SuperNova user who was forced to switch to Linux/Orca in order to
> > use the client and so far as I know they tried quite hard to get
> > things working for him.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryton
> >
> > Not sure if that helps but who knows. Cheers, _mallory
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:28:37AM -0700, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am looking for an Enterprise resource planning system for our
> > > company
> > and
> > > I have tested around 10 and only one has been usable with a screen
> > reader.
> > > The best one I found was:
> > > https://easyerp.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > I would like a couple other options to choose from.
> > > Many companies use ERPs and CRMs and I'm sure someone has
> > > considered accessibility in their system before. I would love to
> > > hear any
> findings.
> > >
> > > I would prefer an open source ERP, because we currently have a
> > > couple systems I would like to integrate into any ERP, but at this
> > > point I am
> > just
> > > happy if it is WCAG compliant.
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;
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