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Re: GOV.UK 2016 assistive technology survey results

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From: Chris Moore
Date: Nov 12, 2016 5:55AM

No not specifically, but we may do next time around, as quite a few responses included information about other assistive technology they use (one person even told us that they use their wife to access GOV.UK!). We wanted to focus on software that takes advantage of keyboard input like Dragon and JAWS, to help us build a testing matrix of commonly used assistive technology and what browser combinations they are used with. Knowing the version of the solution also helps us when it comes to designing services that take advantage of HTML 5 elements and ARIA too.

We just dipped our toe this year and it has proven to be useful, but we need to do a better job of making more people aware of it next time we do it to hopefully attract even more respondents :)

Chris

> On 1 Nov 2016, at 23:23, David Sloan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
>
> Thanks so much to everyone at GDS for conducting this survey and sharing the results-this is really valuable data!
>
> Other than speech input software, did you ask about keyboard or alternative input device usage (for example switch based systems)? This seems to me to be one area where we still lack good data that could help us:
> * understand more about the needs and preferences of people who don't need a screen reader but can't or don't use a pointing device
> * establish the validity of current assumptions on how best to design for this population's needs
>
> Dave
>
>
>> On 1 Nov 2016, at 16:43, Chris Moore < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> All,
>>
>> Sorry for the wait, but here are the results of the 2016 assistive technology survey:
>> https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/01/results-of-the-2016-gov-uk-assistive-technology-survey/
>>
>> Many thanks to all who took part.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
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> David Sloan
>
> UX Research Lead
> The Paciello Group
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
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