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Chris

About the persona

  • 53 year old management accountant

  • rheumatoid arthritis and colour vision deficiency (colour blindness)

  • uses keyboard only, no mouse and just started using voice control

More about the persona on GOV.UK

Tips

Navigate with the keyboard:

  • 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 arrow keys to move between radio buttons
  • press ‘Space’ to select radio button or checkbox
  • press ‘Enter’ to follow a link or submit a form
  • press ‘Esc’ to close things

Use voice control commands:

  • say “click [name of the thing, like the link text]” to click on something
  • say “scroll down” and “scroll up” to scroll the page
  • say “mousegrid” followed by saying one of the numbers that appear and then “click”, if nothing else works
  • say “go to sleep” to stop it from listening, and say “wake up” to start using it again
  • say “what can I say” to show a list of useful commands

Training tasks

There are 2 versions of an example page. Version 1 shows the issues Chris experiences and version 2 shows the fixes that will help Chris. Do version 1 before version 2.

Do the following tasks logged in as Chris:

  1. There is a table. Its country column includes an explanation indicated by a question mark. Try to select that question mark to find out what the explanation is.
  2. There are a couple of buttons below the table. Try to select the correct button.

Version 1 - issues for Chris

Version 2 - fixes for Chris