Ashleigh
About the persona
24 year old arts graduate and administrative assistant
severely sight impaired (blind)
uses a screen reader
More about the persona on GOV.UK and how to set it up
Chromebook help
Screen reader quick guide:
- press ‘Tab’ to go to the next link or form element
- press ‘Shift + Tab’ to go back to the previous link or form element
- press ‘Search + Arrow Right/Left’ to read text in between those (or ‘Shift + Alt + Arrow Right/Left’ on Windows or ‘Cmd + Ctrl + Arrow Right/Left’ on Mac)
- learn more shortcuts for Chromebooks and shortcuts for the Chrome extension
Training tasks
There are 2 versions of an example page. Version 1 shows the issues Ashleigh experiences and version 2 shows the fixes that will help Ashleigh. Do version 1 before version 2.
Do the following tasks logged in as Ashleigh:
- There is a form with two questions. Try to fill it in.
- There is a graph underneath the form which lists types of assistive technology. Try to find out which one of them is used the most.