Screen Reader Accessibility for the Root App

By Cankut Değerli, 10 March, 2026

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Accessibility Advocacy

Hi everyone, I'm here to write about an app called root, witch is an aplication like discord, for building comunities. Because Discord has been blocked in my country, I have been searching for other comunity aplications, which are interestingly coming very fast in these days. :) I think it's because discord's age verification polisies. I tried Root but unfortunately, the app is not accessible. I tried it on my Iphone 16, on my mac and Windows computers. On Iphone, creating an acount and basic navigation on home page with voiceover are possible, but navigation in comunities or servers is not so good. On both windows and mac, you can navigate the app with the tab key but other then that, using the app is impossible. I Wrote an e-mail about this and they sent me their sudgestion page. I wrote my request to that page, but also replied their e-mail saying accessibility is not a feature request, it's a priority. Here is the page if you want to support. :) https://requests.rootapp.com/suggestions/700203/screen-reader-accessibility-is-needed-for-blind-users

Also, you can find the app on their web site, rootapp.com. I must admit, I got a bit frustrated by the support e-mail but I also wanted to inform anyone who is looking for a discord counterpart. Thanks.

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