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
Tips
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
- depending on the screen reader, use these to read text in between those elements
- Narrator, NVDA, etc: ‘Down/Up Arrow’
- VoiceOver: ‘Control + Option + Right/Left Arrow’
- ChromeVox: ‘Search + Right/Left Arrow’
- learn more screen reader shortcuts
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.