Leveraging such Material features may feel unnecessary; however, you must consider responsiveness, styling, spacing, and accessibility concerns when designing your app. The Material team has put in a lot of effort so that your code works correctly under most circumstances and can serve the largest possible user base with a high-quality user experience. This can include visually-impaired or keyboard-primary users, who must rely on specialized software or keyboard features such as tabs to navigate your app. Leveraging Material elements provides crucial metadata for these users to be able to navigate your app.

Material claims support for the following screen reader software:

• NVDA and JAWS with IE / FF / Chrome (on Windows)
• VoiceOver with Safari on iOS and Safari / Chrome on OSX
• TalkBack with Chrome on Android