Accessibility

kanman should work for everyone on your team, whether they use a mouse, a keyboard, a screen reader or a large font size. This page points to the accessibility settings and describes how the app supports assistive technology.

Accessibility settings

Your settings for motion, contrast, see-through surfaces, text size and the focus ring are on Your settings > Look and feel, in the card Comfort and accessibility (/account/look#comfort). Each choice is saved the moment you click it, takes effect at once and follows your account to every device. For motion, contrast and see-through surfaces, System (the default) follows your operating system or browser. See Look and feel: Comfort and accessibility for every option.

Desktop Mobile

Windows contrast themes

When a Windows contrast theme is on, kanman uses your theme’s colours. Focus, the selected option and the current page are shown with outlines, status labels keep their icon and word, and team wallpapers are hidden so text sits on a plain background.

Status is never colour alone

Run stages, gate results and acceptance criteria always combine colour with an icon and a word, for example “Passed”, “Failed” or “Spec: red (expected)”. The evidence pack uses the same words in pull request and tracker comments, so it also reads correctly in tools without colour.

Keyboard

Everything in kanman can be done with the keyboard:

• Tab and Shift+Tab move between controls, Enter and Space activate them.
• Escape closes dialogs and panels. A page you opened from a card in the conversation closes back to that card, and focus returns to it.
• The second stop on every page with the conversation is Skip to the message box: press Tab twice and Enter to start writing to kanman.
• Ctrl+K or Ctrl+P (Cmd+K or Cmd+P on Mac) opens the commands in the message box. Type / in the message box for the same list.
• Decisions can be answered with the keyboard: each option is a button.

See Keyboard shortcuts for the full list.

Screen readers

• Pages use landmarks (navigation, main content) and a correct heading order.
• Buttons and links have descriptive labels, including icon-only buttons.
• Dialogs have proper roles and move focus into the dialog and back.
• The conversation is a message log. Each message is announced with its author and time, and kanman’s finished answers are read out once, not word by word. Each card has a heading, so you can jump from card to card.
• The page heading names the chat you are in (“kanman: General” or the team’s name). When you open a team’s chat from kanman’s summary, focus moves to that heading.
• When you answer a decision in a card, focus moves to the line that says how you answered, for example “You approved the plan”.

Standards

kanman aims to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA and EN 301 549, in the light and the dark theme. Text contrast is at least 4.5:1 (7:1 with high contrast), large text, borders of controls and the focus ring at least 3:1. These ratios are checked automatically for both themes before every release.

To choose between the light and the dark theme, see Look and feel.

Reporting a problem

If something does not work with your assistive technology, write to [email protected]. Tell us the page, what you tried and which assistive technology you use.

Related pages

• Look and feel
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Commands in the message box