Zotero

This report reflects the findings of a high-level assessment of the Zotero Standalone for its conformance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 (WCAG 2.1).

The Zotero application has practically no issues with WCAG 2.1 compliance. The tool works very well, is accessible using keyboard navigation, and has excellent screen reader support. The processes we tested were easy to perform using standard patterns for accessible navigation with screen reader support. Nevertheless, our top findings are important to address to improve system compliance.

Top Findings

1. Column Sorting with Keyboard Navigation: The only issue we were able to uncover was with one specific part of the interface not being accessible by keyboard navigation using common patterns. It seems that the column sorting feature is not accessible using the keyboard using common patterns, and we could not find a way to do it from the keyboard shortcuts section in the settings. The sort works perfectly; we just could not get to it using the keyboard.
2. Zotero Connector: The test cases for this evaluation also asked us to look at the Zotero Connector browser extension. We were able to test this across 3 different browsers in the allotted time for this evaluation: Firefox, Chrome, and Edge. The Chrome and Edge extensions had similar performance and pulled nearly identical information. Firefox on the other hand worked much better and was able to pull much more information from the provided article, including a PDF attachment, which neither the Chrome nor Edge versions were able to do.