WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility

What it is

Flowable Work has been brought up to the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard. This is a broad compliance effort across the Work UI rather than a single screen, covering how people perceive, navigate and operate the application without relying on a mouse or on sight alone. Keyboard users and screen readers can now interact with the UI directly on a broad spectrum.

What’s included:

• Conformance with WCAG 2.2 AA across the Flowable Work UI, confirmed by an external auditor.
• Broad accessibility hardening applied consistently throughout the Work interface.

Why it matters

Accessibility is increasingly a procurement requirement. Public sector tenders, regulated industries and large enterprises frequently mandate WCAG 2.2 AA conformance before software can be adopted. Meeting the standard removes that barrier, widens the set of organisations that can deploy Flowable, and makes the application usable for people who rely on keyboards or assistive technology. The same work also makes the everyday interface more robust and consistent for every user.

How it works

The accessibility work spans the Work UI rather than a single component. Interactive elements expose the correct roles and states so assistive technology can describe them accurately, focus order is defined so the Tab key moves through the page in a sensible reading sequence, and keyboard handlers were added where interaction previously assumed a mouse pointer.

Example

A caseworker who navigates entirely by keyboard opens a work list, tabs through the available cases, processes and tasks and works on these items. A screen reader announces each control correctly, so the same task that a sighted, mouse-driven colleague performs is fully available to them.