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• Perusall is not a UW-Madison supported tool. All support questions must be answered by the instructor using the tool, or the vendor. Perusall has support documents at https://support.perusall.com/hc/en-us.

Accessibility and usability barriers 

The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist and to help people who support them. This is not a comprehensive list of barriers. Our team evaluates common user flows, looking for patterns of barriers. We do not evaluate the entire application.

Screen reader barriers limit access for individuals using screen readers, such as people who are blind or who have a learning disability.

Some images, such as the profile icon, lack alternative text.  

The toolbar is hard to access via screen reader. If screen reader users want to access the toolbar, they have to close this window first, however, this ‘close’ icon can not be accessed all the time. Users are unable to access the toolbar directly.

Figure 1: Screen readers are not able to access the toolbar unless they close a window, and the close icon is not always able to be accessed.

Keyboard navigation barriers may limit access for people with motor disabilities.

Users can not access the toolbars via keyboard. And many items do not have keyboard focus indicators so that users do not know where they are. 

Magnification and reflow barriers exist, creating barriers for people with low vision.

At 200% and higher magnification, some content is not available. By 250%, content is cropped. WCAG 2.1 AA standards require websites and apps to function to at least 400% magnification.

Figure 2: The content in the main panel becomes cropped at 250% magnification.

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