Users who rely on screen reading software to access JIRA find a number of issues. It would be great if the Atlassian team were to work on improving these so that JIRA is usable by all. Here are some details for you:

1. When creating an issue in JIRA, a screen reader user is able to use both the issue drop-down and the [Select issue] link to select an issue. Unfortunately, the user is then unable to access the list of added linked issues to make sure they were linked correctly.
This problem seems to occur for any drop-down that allows you to select multiple items. E.g seems to be the same issue for selecting labels

2. Some other issues with the create screen:
There are problems with linking field labels to their input controls e.g. Project has a label tag with a for=project
But the input field's id is actually project-field
Seems to be an issue with labels for auto-complete dropdowns

Other fields with the same issue are:
Issue type label for=issuetype input fields id=issuetype-field
Priority label for=priority input id=priority-field
Labels label for=labels input id=labels-textarea
Issue label for=issuelinks-issues input id=issuelinks-issues-textarea
Assignee label for=assignee input id=assignee-field
And for custom fields such as epic link and sprint