Very little is read by screenreaders

[eschiebel]

Describe the bug Everything in the UI needs to be read by screenreaders, and it's not.

To Reproduce

• Turn on your screenreader. (I'm using VoiceOver on chrome)
• on entering the editor it says "enter text or type for commands". it does not say "slash"
• type / to open the slash menu
• down arrow to navigate thru the menu
• nothing is announced.

Navigate around in the content and you get a mixture of the text entered and the slash menu prompt.

You can see this in the live editor on the https://www.blocknotejs.org/ home page

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• [ ] I'm a sponsor and would appreciate if you could look into this sooner than later 💖

[eschiebel]

I can create more issues if you'd like, but there are other a11y issues in BlockNote wrt keyboard only users

• there are no focus indicators to let the keyboard user know where they are
• not all functionality is available to the keyboard user (e.g. the menu off the drag handle, or reordering blocks)
• the inline content formatting toolbar can't be navigated via the keyboard

[YousefED]

Thanks @eschiebel . We're planning an extensive accessibility sprint in April / May!

[YousefED]

Hi! We've made significant improvements in the latest release: https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/pull/718

@eschiebel curious what you think about the update. Feel free to continuing the discussion in that PR!