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Accessibility statement

We want Vault Studio Pro to be usable with a keyboard, a screen reader, zoom and high-contrast settings. We are working toward the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. We have not had the app audited by a third party, and we don't claim that it conforms yet. This page says what we have done, what we know still falls short, and how to tell us about problems.

Last reviewed: .

What we have done

  • Dialogs: every dialog, drawer and overlay is announced as a dialog with its title. Focus moves into it when it opens, Tab stays inside it, Escape closes it (only the innermost one, when one dialog opens another), and focus returns to the control that opened it.
  • Names for controls: icon-only buttons have text names, on/off buttons report whether they are pressed, buttons that open a menu or panel report whether it is open, and form fields have labels rather than placeholder text alone.
  • Keyboard access: things that were only clickable with a mouse can now be reached and used with the keyboard, including slide thumbnails (arrow keys move between slides), template cards, the table-size picker, the command palette (a searchable list you move through with the arrow keys), sheet tabs, file drop zones and the app switcher menu. Controls show a visible outline when they have keyboard focus.
  • Editors: the Docs page is exposed as a multi-line text box; the Sheets grid is exposed as a grid with row and column headers, and the active cell is reported to screen readers as you move; the Slides canvas has a name and keyboard help, and you can select, move, edit and delete objects on it with the keyboard.
  • Contrast: we checked text colours in the app's header, ribbons, status bar, start screen and plans dialog, and on these pages, in light and dark themes, and fixed the ones that were too faint.
  • Automated checks: our test suite runs the open-source axe-core engine against the start screen, each editor, each dialog and every page of this website, and fails on serious or critical issues that the tool can detect. Automated tools find only part of the problems, so we also check by hand.

Known limitations

  • Image Studio and the image previews in some tools are drawn on a canvas. Screen readers can't describe what is in the image, and some tools (drawing, the colour picker that samples a pixel, drawing a signature) need a mouse, pen or touch. Where we can, there is another way: for example, you can type or upload a signature instead of drawing one.
  • Slides: moving and resizing objects precisely is easier with a mouse. Arrow keys move the selected object, but there is no keyboard way to resize it yet.
  • Sheets: the grid can be used with the keyboard (arrow keys, Tab, Enter, F2 to edit, Escape to cancel), but large sheets with formulas are complex to follow with a screen reader, and selecting a range with the keyboard (Shift+arrow keys) is not supported yet.
  • PDF editor: text in a scanned PDF is only available to screen readers after OCR, and annotations are drawn with the pointer.
  • Documents you create: the app doesn't check your own documents for accessibility (for example missing image descriptions or heading order), and exported files are only as accessible as their content.
  • The colour-contrast checks we automate don't cover every state (hover, disabled, every theme and document colour), and we haven't yet tested with every screen reader and browser combination, or with Windows high-contrast (forced colours) mode.

Tell us about a problem

If something in Vault Studio Pro or on this website is hard or impossible to use, email [email protected]. Please tell us what you were trying to do, which page or tool it was, and which browser and assistive technology you use. We read every report and will reply.

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