Hi all — I’ve submitted a ZCG grant application and wanted to open it up for community discussion here, as required.
GitHub issue: Grant Application - Zcash Wallet Accessibility Audit · Issue #554 · ZcashCommunityGrants/zcashcommunitygrants · GitHub
**Summary:** Across the current landscape of Zcash wallet work — hardware wallet integrations, WalletConnect support, security audits — none of it addresses accessibility for users with disabilities. No Zcash wallet currently has a documented accessibility audit.
This grant funds a WCAG 2.1 AA-aligned accessibility audit of one wallet (primary target: Zashi; a more-responsive community wallet as fallback if Electric Coin Co doesn’t engage), using real screen-reader testing (VoiceOver/TalkBack) across the core flows every user has to complete: wallet creation, receive, send, and balance/history. Output is a public severity-rated report plus PRs for the highest-impact fixes.
Requested: $2,000 ($400 startup funding to secure the target wallet maintainer’s agreement and set up a working test environment before the audit itself is funded, then $1,000 for the audit/report and $600 for fix PRs).
I’m reaching out to Zashi’s maintainers directly to confirm they’re open to receiving the audit — will update this thread once I hear back, and will pick a fallback target if needed. Happy to answer questions here or on the GitHub issue.