Difficulties Reading Chats With Screen Readers

Hi,

I've been an intermittent user of this platform, namely because I've been facing some accessibility challenges that have been hard for me to articulate because I haven't encountered it on many sites before. It concerns the way chats are read by screen reading software.

Right now, your chat makes me jump up and down between messages to read them.

To read them in order, I have to:

1. Go down to the oldest message with the down arrow key,

2. Move to the top of that message with the up arrow key,

3. Go up to the next message with the up arrow key,

4. Move down inside that message to read it with the down arrow key,

and repeat this over and over.

It’s extremely confusing for screen readers because I'm not able to simply scroll down using the down arrow key as I would with most other chat applications or websites.

Would it be possible to make the messages read in chronological order so I can just use the down arrow key to seamlessly follow the conversation without impacting your sighted users?

Thank you for your assistance.