Align spoken reading order with the visible task

What to change

Ask the supplier to check the meaningful sequence of page content independently of its desktop placement.

A worked example

Illustrative example

A preparation panel is read before the control that starts its task, even though the panel sits beside that control in the wide-screen design.

How to check the result

Accept when both visual and spoken routes provide information in time for the decision or action it supports.

A mistake to avoid

Moving a warning visually above a button does not ensure it will be encountered first in the page's reading sequence.

Your action checklist

Use these checks to prepare a discussion with your team or supplier. Tick a check when you have recorded the decision or evidence, rather than when a feature has simply been promised.

Decisions to recordListen through a representative page from its main heading without jumping between links. Note any instruction, label or explanation that arrives after its dependent action.Inspect the same page when columns stack on a phone. This often makes sequence problems visible without assistive technology.Ask the supplier to correct the underlying order and then review the desktop arrangement. Both presentations should preserve the same understandable relationships.

Evidence, open questions and decisionsNext action and responsible role

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