Amy Young brought us an interesting topic this month: join us for a discussion of Checkvist, a keyboard-driven task/list manager. The developers of this tool designed it for developers and anyone else who wants to avoid using the mouse for improved concentration, comfort, and productivity. They created Checkvist ~12 years ago as an experiment, inspired by aspects of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like VSCode and IntelliJ IDEA: for example, no reliance on the mouse, minimal UI, and immersive work. While they didn't design explicitly with accessibility in mind, they have incorporated rich keyboard support into their tool. They have heard anecdotally that this keyboard-only approach is helpful to people with ADHD, but haven't investigated the impact on visually impaired users. They are interested in receiving accessibility feedback so they can make Checkvist work for a wider variety of people who rely on keyboard support.

Join us to take a look at Checkvist and provide feedback about what it does well and how it could be made more accessible!