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by blinddev 3263 days ago
Hi Nate,

Will any of that $30M go towards making Lever's website even remotely accessible to screen readers and such? If you're not sure what I'm talking about, try visiting your website with Safari and VoiceOver enabled and watch it crash the browser (or put it into a perpetual loading state). If I see your website linked in a job listing I just skip it altogether. I don't ask for much, just don't kill my screen reader.
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nateps 3263 days ago
Unfortunately we were not able to reproduce: https://github.com/nateps/assets/blob/master/lever-jobs-safa...

Do you remember when this last was that you encountered this or what specific job site you were using? Might be best we take this offline. Could you please email support@lever.co so we can track this and are sure we get the issue resolved? Thank you!

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nateps 3263 days ago
Here’s a text description of the GIF, for anyone who relies entirely on a screen reader (compared to using it together with a magnifier).

A user has www.lever.co open in Safari, with the VoiceOver narration popup open at the bottom. They type jobs.lever.co/lever into the address bar. On that page, they navigate down to the Backend Engineer position and go to the job description page for that position, where they then hit the Apply button. On the application form, they quickly go through the form fields, all the way down to the Submit Application button. The GIF ends there.

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nateps 3263 days ago
Thanks for the tip! I do know that one of our engineers did verify that our public job postings sites for compatibility with screen readers before. I'm not sure we tried Safari with VoiceOver specifically. Will report back.
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