Seeking Feedback: Improving Flutter Accessibility Dev Experience

chunhtai · October 1, 2025, 3:39am

Hello Flutter friends,

I am chunhtai, and I lead the accessibility efforts for Flutter. I’m reaching out because I would like to improve Flutter’s accessibility, and your experience is invaluable to achieving that goal.

I’m specifically focused on understanding how Flutter can better assist you in identifying and resolving accessibility violations against public standards like WCAG, VPAT, and EAA. My aim is to help developers to find, debug, and fix accessibility issues easily and early in the development cycle.

Here is the tracking GitHub issue, feel free to leave any feedback.

github.com/flutter/flutter

Seeking feedback: Improving dev experience when working on accessibility

opened 09:30PM - 29 Sep 25 UTC

chunhtai

team-accessibility

Creating an accessible app is vital—it ensures everyone, everywhere can use our …products. With the growing industry focus on accessibility standards (like EAA, WCAG, and VPAT), we've seen a rise in customer-reported accessibility issues. Unfortunately, these are often discovered late in the cycle, right before a release, putting high pressure on deadlines. We want to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive development. To do this, we need to empower developer to catch accessibility violations early in development workflow. As the first step, we'd would to gather some feedback from Flutter developers for the following: 1. What have been your biggest pain points or notable successes with accessibility so far? 2. What tools, features, or improvements to existing debugging tools do you think would be most helpful for catching and fixing accessibility issues in Flutter? 3. Do you have any other suggestions or feedback regarding accessibility in Flutter that you'd like to share? Please use the comment in this issue to leave your feedback.

Thank you in advance for your time and valuable input!