Accessibility Challenges with Taylor & Francis / Scopus Submission Portals

By SiddarthM, 8 February, 2025

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Assistive Technology

Hello all,
I’m looking to publish my research paper manuscript in a reputed Taylor & Francis or Scopus-indexed journal, but I’m facing accessibility challenges while navigating their submission portals. Has anyone here tried submitting through these platforms using a screen reader?
If so, were you able to successfully complete the submission and get published in a Scopus-indexed journal? I’d appreciate any tips or workarounds on how to manage this process efficiently.
Thank you!

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By Maldalain on Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:02

The website is difficult to navigate however when you make your submission things would get easier to track. Unfortunately editors are not understanding accessibility enough as they request changes all the time and the changes are hardly accessible with screen readers. This is not specific to Windows, but also MacOS has the same issue. I am sorry to say that, but probably you need sighted assistance.

By Brian on Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:02

There is an add-on that may assist you. Its called -- Web Access for NVDA -- and is found in the Add-on Store built into NVDA.
It is designed for complicated websites, according to the documentation, and reportedly allows a user to script, for lack of a better description, the website to work better with NVDA.

Unfortunately if you use JAWS or VoiceOver for macOS, then someone else here may be able to assist you. :)