Real markup, not a video stream
A remote desktop sends pixels, so a learner's screen reader cannot see inside it. Every Forge screen is a document: headings, tables, labeled controls and live regions that announce what just changed.
Accessibility
Hands-on cyber training usually stops at the remote desktop, because a video stream cannot be read by assistive technology. Forge has no video stream. Every terminal, SIEM console and appliance screen is built from markup, which is why a screen-reader user can complete the same exercise, scored the same way, as everyone else on the team.
A remote desktop sends pixels, so a learner's screen reader cannot see inside it. Every Forge screen is a document: headings, tables, labeled controls and live regions that announce what just changed.
Windows, terminals, alert queues, packet views and appliance consoles are all reachable and operable without a pointer, with visible focus and roving focus inside grids.
Accessible mode replaces the floating desktop with a linear layout, and prefers tables and written descriptions wherever the standard view uses a chart or a map.
Animations can be switched off entirely, contrast forced, focus rings always shown, links always underlined, and the whole layout reflows at larger text sizes instead of zooming pixels.
Non-speech cues for alerts, objectives and teammate actions can be turned on or off; nothing in an exercise is only signaled by sound or only by color.
English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Hindi, with native keyboards, and a keystroke that ejects back to English mid-exercise.
These are the real settings. They apply everywhere in Forge, right away, and follow you into every lab. Press Alt+A anywhere to open the same panel.
Keyboard paths, focus order and announcements are exercised by the automated test suite on every change, so a console that stops being reachable fails the build rather than shipping quietly.
This is our own verification. An independent WCAG audit and a published accessibility conformance report are not done yet; if your procurement needs one, tell us and we will schedule it rather than send you a document we did not earn.