Activities you can try

To gain an insight into the challenges of users with access needs try these activities. You can do them at home, at your desk.

• Try this game accessibility through a maze
• Not everyone uses a mouse so unplug your mouse or disable your trackpad and try using only your keyboard for an hour
• Change your browser zoom to 400% and check the effect of resizing on the webpage you are viewing
• Try some of the built in Microsoft Windows accessibility features, such as Windows Narrator
• If you have an Apple device, try the Mac accessibility features, such as VoiceOver
• The hearing loss simulator demonstrates how different levels of hearing loss are perceived
• The dyslexia simulator rearranges the letters within words on a page to give you a feel for what it may be like reading with dyslexia
• Colour blindness experience allows you to find out what it is like to live in a colour-blind world and access simulators to find out what your content looks like to someone who is colour blind
• The Funkify simulators mimic cognitive; dyslexia; motor and vision conditions. You can experience the web through the eyes of users with these disabilities. Note: you will not be able to do this on your HMRC Surface Pro
• Empathy prompts to consider when making things for others to use.
• Add extensions for accessibility insights to your browser. Note: you will not be able to do this on your HMRC Surface Pro
• Try out this fictional service "Record a goose sighting" which contains accessibility issues you need to find. Once in the service, there is a link to a worksheet to help you through the exercise. This was created as a method of “Training people to do accessibility reviews”

Please email us at accessibility.team@hmrc.gov.uk if you have any questions.