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Accessibility lessons: dealing with a large amount of form inputs

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Screenshot with a heading that says 'person' and a list of checkboxes that show the following names: Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC, Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC, Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Pulford KCB CBE ADC RAF, Alan Charlton CMG CVO

On GOV.UK we’ve been looking at ways of improving our finder pages, like services and news and communications. Finder pages allow users to search for specific kinds of content using facets such as topic and organisations to narrow their results. …

What we learned from getting our autocomplete tested for accessibility

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An image of the autocomplete in use. The text in the textbox reads “unite action tab down 5 times”. There are a set of seven country results below.

We’ve been working on an autocomplete/location picker for use across government. We had it tested for accessibility, and we found a couple of major issues and the team learned a lot from the experience. Here’s what we did and what we found out.