Accessibility of R with screen reading

[AWershing]

Hello,
I am new to R, as well as to this community. Does anyone have current information on the accessibility of R specifically with JAWS? Is there a current VPAT available for review? I have seen older posts that there were known issues. I have a student coming this fall, and want to be sure that his materials will be accessible. Thank you-
Alice Wershing

[mara]

Just to disambiguate, are you asking about R or RStudio (the IDE — see detail in FAQ, below).

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

R itself is quite accessible (see report from A. Jonathan R. Godfrey linked to below, also available as free open article here).
https://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/StatSoftware/
RStudio (the IDE), however, is not, as of yet.

See also the BrailleR package
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BrailleR/vignettes/GettingStarted.html

[GaryR]

Hi, as Mara said, the RStudio IDE itself is not yet accessible via screen readers.

We know this is unacceptable, and I am actively working on improving that for the next major release (1.3) of the RStudio IDE, but unfortunately that will not be ready this fall; more likely early in 2020.