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Owen_Hughes
June 4, 2021
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Accessibility testing on Figma prototypes

My team are looking to test more people with accessibility needs.

One case may be needing to test a prototype with someone who uses a screen reader, would a screen reader read a prototype?

If not, how have others tested accessibility using figma?

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Celine_
Celine_Solution
Community Support
May 8, 2024

Hi there! You can have more information in our Help Center article here: Accessible prototypes in Figma.

Please remind that currently, accessibility mode does not work for mobile or mobile web prototypes but hopefully this will change in the near future. In the meantime, I recommend keeping an eye on our Release Notes where we post all major updates. Thank you!

9 replies

Aga1
June 9, 2021

I have just tried to test a prototype of a web solution on figma with a visually impaired person. I tried to read the prototype through, but it did not really work. I back up the question of Owen: Is there any way to have a screen reader in figma prototypes when we test our prototypes with visually impaired participants of user testing?

Saradha_Sankar
September 2, 2021

I am trying to run select to speak accessibility option on my prototype but none of the content is getting read. It just says ‘No text in that location’.
I want to know how to enable screen readability.

bree.mckenna
September 13, 2021

Any word on this? We have a dev team QA that is vision impaired and we need to pass designs to him. We have tried PDFs but that isn’t working. When is figma going to make the prototype mode able to work with a screen reader?

Luis_Mattioli
January 25, 2022

I think the most logical thing to do is exporting from FIGMA to html. This tool is powerful, but looks like it’s not powerful enough

Pipi_Marquez
October 12, 2023

Yo creé un prototipo para screen readers que funciona en el celu y escritorio es básico pero aprendí un par de buenas prácticas.
Igualmente no está preparada la era mienta completamente para hacer pruebas o soportar interacciones complejas

Pipi_Marquez
October 12, 2023

Desde opciones decís el modo para el lector de pantalla?

Pipi_Marquez
October 12, 2023

Ya existe pero vos tenes que preparar bien tu documento para que lo pueda hacer

May 7, 2024

@Figma is there any update about this?

With the European Accessibility Act (EAA) in June 2025 we as designers need ways to validate our concept prototypes.

Just waiting till production is not an option.

Celine_
Figmate
Celine_Solution
Community Support
May 8, 2024

Hi there! You can have more information in our Help Center article here: Accessible prototypes in Figma.

Please remind that currently, accessibility mode does not work for mobile or mobile web prototypes but hopefully this will change in the near future. In the meantime, I recommend keeping an eye on our Release Notes where we post all major updates. Thank you!