Outstanding Access Issues with Hubb

While accessibility concerns played a huge role in choosing the digital platform for CHI 2022 and the accessibility chairs working tirelessly with Hubb to improve their system, we have not managed to have all identified issues ready in time for the conference. We do continue to check for and identify issues, and also improve the system where we can—please let us know if you encounter errors. We present here the list of outstanding issues so that attendants may identify how this potentially impacts their participation and contact the accessibility chairs to identify possible work-arounds.

General Issues

Generally viewing on a small screen or increasing the font for readability will result in text running off the page, which isn’t scrollable to be read, and other page elements appear to overlap.

Making appointments with others

The ordering of elements is confusing when scheduling meetings and on the message pages.
Meeting boxes act as buttons and the ‘+ Select’ button seems to be the same. It seems like it doesn’t matter where you click to get to the next screen, and for a screen reader it just mentions the larger box is the button.
The send invite button is at the top of the interface (next to the button labeled “select”), before the user enters the meeting details.
The cancel meeting option, though is activatable with a screen reader, does not announce itself as a link or a button unless it is pressed for the first time. After the first press, it announces itself as a link. This could result in the users assuming that the control is inaccessible.
When using the schedule an online meeting feature (the flow that lets us select one of pre-created zoom rooms), and selecting a room:

NVDA announces “table with 0 rows and 0 columns” when going through the rooms.
When going through each room, NVDA announces “button button”, 20, and “yes” or “no”. It is unclear what this information was mapping to.

Welcome Page

The settings icon on the teaser video can’t be selected using VO(control+option)+Space.
There is an H2 heading saying “Welcome To” but nothing else. This H2 heading is also above an H1 heading which says “CHI 2022”.
There are a bunch of links labeled “resized” after the text “FemWork: Critical Pivot towards design for inclusive labor features” in the main page.

Photobooth

When I navigate to the main content page it say “frame 0, main”. Participants then have to go into the frame before they can explore content.
The CHI logo within the frame has confusing alt text “Snapbar” rather than mentioning it is the CHI logo.
There’s a link with the text “here”. It should be more descriptive.

CHI Community

The heading in the main window goes from H2 to H1.

Program Page

There is an “add to schedule” clickable item in addition to the button that says “Add to schedule.” Same for remove.
In the program view that has multiple sessions (on or after May 2), each paper is tagged with a heading level 3. However, there is no such annotation for sessions, making it hard to jump between sessions.

Posters and Demos

There seems to be an unlabelled or empty link after each authors(s).

Notifications

Notifications message isn’t easy to access using a screen reader on mobile.

Mobile Use

When tapping through homepage, voiceover on mobile reads menus that aren’t visible because they are hidden behind the burger menu