Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day With LastPass

Every user deserves an accessible web experience. May 20 marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people worldwide living with disabilities. Securing your digital life requires digital accessibility, and LastPass strives to be everyone’s go-to password manager. However, we recognize this cannot happen until we have adapted the way in which our product works or is presented to end-users with disabilities. On this 10th Global Accessibility Awareness Day, LastPass is excited to share the initial steps we’ve taken to ensure our password manager can be used by everyone.

Building a foundation for inclusivity and accessibility

As of today, LastPass has enabled keyboard navigation, updated proper color contrast and readability, and has added regions and language tags to allow users to navigate with screen readers and keyboards more easily within the vault navigation across three main browsers.  Let’s take a closer look at the vault navigation accessibility updates:

• Keyboard Operation: Keyboard navigation has been enabled. While this benefits all users who prefer to navigate the web with their keyboard, it also removes access barriers for those who are unable to use a mouse and/or utilize screen readers.
• Screen Reader Navigation: Users can more easily and quickly navigate to different sections of the application when using screen readers and keyboards.
• Color: Proper contrast in colors has been applied according to accessibility standards. In this way, those with visual impairments will be able to more easily differentiate text and interactive elements. It will also mitigate screen fatigue for those working in bright lighting conditions. 
• Font: Updated font and spacing has been implemented to ensure readability for users with visual impairments. 
• Language: Language tags have been updated to ensure that screen readers can operate within the selected language for users with visual impairments.

Our work has only just begun

This is a significant step in ensuring LastPass is inclusive and can be used by all. While we are eager to bring these updates to our LastPass community, we know this is just the first step in our journey to remove usage barriers.   “I see the commitment that LastPass is taking due to the fact that their Customer Success team worked with us, and now, they have an accessibility patch coming out," says Lucy Greco, Web Accessibility Evangelist at UC Berkeley. "This shows that a significant amount of resources were used. To me, even if an organization hasn't achieved everything on their to-do list, putting the commitment in is the important part. We'll eventually get there. It's a journey of small steps, not large.” To learn more or provide feedback, visit our Support Page.   For more information on events and activities, check out the Global Accessibility Awareness Day site. They also provide a bevy of great resources, like links to accessibility features, assistive technology, and tools.