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Add guidance for accessibility of details component #3904

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Add more reference to the accessibility issues for Dragon users.

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After visiting the Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) and meeting a user of Dragon in and out of work, I was made aware of the difficulty they experience when using details components on pages.

I also witnessed how the language we used in our details guidance to refer to the issue made them feel untrusted.

This change is likely something we can do alongside improving the component.

Add more reference to the accessibility issues for Dragon users.
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A very minor preferential point on link text, plus a full stop. I'm not gonna kick off about the preference tbh. This looks all good otherwise.

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@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ Make the link text short and descriptive so users can quickly work out if they n

There is [evidence that some users avoid clicking the link to show more details](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issues/44#issuecomment-629122091), as they think it will take them away from the page.

There are [concerns that some users of voice assist software will not be able to interact with the component](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issues/44#issuecomment-628082040). Some software might require the user to specifically refer to the link to show more details as a button in order to interact with it.
It is known that [some users of voice assist software will not be able to interact with the component](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issues/44#issuecomment-628082040). Some software might require the user to specifically refer to the link to show more details as a button in order to interact with it.
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Not anything you changed, but I find the second sentence confusing. I've read it 3 times now and can't work out what it's trying to tell me.

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@calvin-lau-sig7 are you able to help me with making this a bit clearer?

CharlotteDowns and others added 2 commits August 23, 2024 13:47
Co-authored-by: Owen Jones <64783893+owenatgov@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ed Horsford <mail@edwardhorsford.com>
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