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Re: User Research around the accessibility of components?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 31, 2021 4:43AM

I don't have any formal research that we can publish, but we have done an awful lot of user testing and I can confirm that we have seen most of the issues GDS refer to with regard to type="number". We agree with their recommendations.

It's a shame we can't see the videos supporting the assertion that native <select> elements are problematic, because I don't believe we have ever encountered such a problem. Maybe they were testing with people at the very bottom of the digital inclusion scale, which we rarely get to do. That video is now 7 years old, so GDS may have changed their view since then.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd