Blind Person - Shortcuts in Asana

All. I have a blind person in my team who is struggling to use ASANA through VoiceOver in a Mac computer.

He manages himself at work through shortcuts in ASANA. I have shared with him ASANA Shortcuts for Mac OS, which have a few nice shortcuts he can use and he manages de computer quite well, but I don’t see a shortcut to open a New Project in ASANA. Is there something the Dev team has created already? Do you have any special source of shortcuts for people with disabilities?

You could use the shortcut to open the search, type the name, go down 3 times and you should end up on the project!

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Hi @Carlos_Alexandre_Gar and welcome :wave:t3:

Sorry for the delay in responding to you! I’ve looked through all our documentation and can’t find a shortcut for creating a new project in Asana. Right now, @Bastien_Siebman workaround is probably the quickest way for your colleague to create a new project. I’ve filed a task to bring this under our teams radar and I’ll be sure to follow-up via this thread as soon as I have an update!

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Hi Bastien. Thanks for you input, but as you describe it, it appears to be a way to get to existing projects, not to create a new one.

Thanks Marie! My colleague and me will be following up on updates!

Hello guys!

Recently, my company has hired a blind employee that is using Microsoft Windows system devices and has been facing problems to use Asana shortcut. We did some tests and they do not work with the Screen Narrator Reader activated.

Is there any alternative to that problem?

Thank you very much.

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Very good point, if you don’t get an answer, let me know and I’ll rise this up during a Forum Leader meeting!

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Hey @Bastien_Siebman once it’s been 21 days since my comment here, I wonder if you could rise this topic up at the Forum. We have an diversity and inclusive program at my company and new blind employees are being hired, wich means, Asana as our official tool is not being so helpful for them.

It seems the problem is because of the “ctrl +…” combination for the shortcut, which is the same command for Windows screen narrator readers, which means, Windows can’t recognize the commands for Asana.

Thank you very much.

I reached out to Asana team on our private Slack to see if they can provide an answer!

Hi @anon25712525 :wave: and thank you very much for your valuable feedback and time to share it with us. Asana takes accessibility seriously. I’m checking with our product team what is the last update on this topic and I will let you know as soon as I have more information!

Feel free to also use @Forum-team to notify us if you have any urgent questions or if we missed your comments!

Thank you @Bastien_Siebman for the heads up as well! :slight_smile:

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Hi, I am an accessibility specialist and a blind person myself. At the moment I am trying to find a task management solution for our company which ork for both sighted abd blind users in our team. I have been trying out Asana. I have to say, I am quiet disabpointed as I have expected better results. I have downloaded both desktop app and ios app and have also tried the web version. basicly non of them is completely accessible. Voice over version works better than all others but the calender element does not work, so I cannot set a due date for the tasks. In the web version or desktop version I can set a due date, but opening the details of a task is impossible. Also this forume here is very in accessible. I see you have hear promissed a list of shortcuts or at least the fact that is there such a thing or not, but I do not see any follow up on that. If Asana really takes accessibility sirousely you would have thought we had a better situation here. I still hope you can either provide a text field in ios version where people can simply write the due date or otherwise make that calander element accessible. The web version could be much more understandable if the focuse order and focuse management was more take care of.