This document discusses the use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation software. It explains how Dragon works by listening to a microphone and transcribing speech to text. It keeps an internal representation of text that allows for editing by voice commands. The document outlines some challenges with automatic capitalization and syncing edits between Dragon and applications. It also covers using the mouse and browser by voice, as well as customizing commands. In implications for web design, it warns that autoformatting can cause issues and advocates for forgiveness of errors in voice dictation.

1. Accessible by
Voice
Or: how to make a tiny corner of the
internet not want to punch you in the face

2. Talking to the Dragon
• Dragon Naturally
Speaking Home
£79.99
• Dragon Naturally
Speaking Premium
£149.99
• Dragon Naturally
Speaking Professional
£549.00
• Dragon Dictate for
Mac £129.99
(I don’t make any money off Dragon. I wish I did ;-)
There are others, including dictation software built into Mac OS & Windows, and rudimentary
dictation / control software built into Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7. There are also
some highly specialised systems (eg: medical), and a few other dictation-only solutions as
well.
As far as I’m aware, Dragon is the only system that has reasonable voice control of desktop
computers as well as dictation capabilities.

3. Using Dragon:
Working with Text

4. Text input
So how does it work? You talk into a microphone, Dragon does some magic (involving maths),
and text appears in the target application. But that’s just transcription; what if you want to
correct what you dictated?

5. Text input
h
a h bla
Blah bl
So how does it work? You talk into a microphone, Dragon does some magic (involving maths),
and text appears in the target application. But that’s just transcription; what if you want to
correct what you dictated?

6. Text input
Blah blah
blah
h
a h bla
Blah bl
So how does it work? You talk into a microphone, Dragon does some magic (involving maths),
and text appears in the target application. But that’s just transcription; what if you want to
correct what you dictated?

7. Editing
Dragon keeps an internal representation of the text that has been dictated.

8. Editing
sh
Wh en I wi
ud
upo n a clo
Dragon keeps an internal representation of the text that has been dictated.

9. Editing
When I wish
sh
Wh en I wi upon a cloud
ud
upo n a clo
Dragon keeps an internal representation of the text that has been dictated.

10. Editing
When I
When I wish wish upon a
sh
Wh en I wi upon a cloud
upo n a clo
ud cloud
Dragon keeps an internal representation of the text that has been dictated.

11. Editing
When I
When I wish wish upon a
Delete
“wish” upon a cloud cloud
It applies voice editing commands to its internal representation, and *then* issues editing
commands to the target application.

12. Editing
When I
When I dance dance upon
dance upon a cloud a cloud
To do this, it keeps track of where the text cursor is in the target application.

13. Editing
When I
When I dance I dance I
t
ocumen dance for me
Cache d dance for
me
If things get out of sync (if you use the keyboard to edit, for instance) you can ask Dragon to
re-read what’s in the application. This is also useful when you load a new document.

14. Editing
Sometimes this goes wrong, particularly with apps that haven’t properly implemented
accessibility. Good apps on Mac: Textmate, Scrivener. Bad: Chrome. Somewhere in the
middle: Mail. Things that can go wrong range from random letters appearing, to overwriting
parts of words. Sometimes Dragon can’t even get back in sync with the application.

15. Editing
h
Blah b lah bla
Sometimes this goes wrong, particularly with apps that haven’t properly implemented
accessibility. Good apps on Mac: Textmate, Scrivener. Bad: Chrome. Somewhere in the
middle: Mail. Things that can go wrong range from random letters appearing, to overwriting
parts of words. Sometimes Dragon can’t even get back in sync with the application.

16. Editing
h
Blah blah blah
Blah b lah bla
Sometimes this goes wrong, particularly with apps that haven’t properly implemented
accessibility. Good apps on Mac: Textmate, Scrivener. Bad: Chrome. Somewhere in the
middle: Mail. Things that can go wrong range from random letters appearing, to overwriting
parts of words. Sometimes Dragon can’t even get back in sync with the application.

17. Editing
Blah blah blah Blah blah
h
Blah b lah bla
blahJ
Sometimes this goes wrong, particularly with apps that haven’t properly implemented
accessibility. Good apps on Mac: Textmate, Scrivener. Bad: Chrome. Somewhere in the
middle: Mail. Things that can go wrong range from random letters appearing, to overwriting
parts of words. Sometimes Dragon can’t even get back in sync with the application.

18. Automatic
Capitalisation
Dragon is designed (mostly) for dictating prose, so it understands that new sentences get
capital letters. If it doesn’t notice that you’ve moved from one input to the next, it may not
think you’re in a new sentence. (Conversely, sometimes it thinks you’re at the start of a new
sentence but you don’t want to be.) There are commands to force or suppress capitalisation
of the next word.

19. Automatic
Capitalisation
o
Iw anted t
u
m ak e y o
happy
Dragon is designed (mostly) for dictating prose, so it understands that new sentences get
capital letters. If it doesn’t notice that you’ve moved from one input to the next, it may not
think you’re in a new sentence. (Conversely, sometimes it thinks you’re at the start of a new
sentence but you don’t want to be.) There are commands to force or suppress capitalisation
of the next word.

20. Automatic
Capitalisation
I wanted to
o
Iw anted t make you happy
u
m ak e y o
happy
Dragon is designed (mostly) for dictating prose, so it understands that new sentences get
capital letters. If it doesn’t notice that you’ve moved from one input to the next, it may not
think you’re in a new sentence. (Conversely, sometimes it thinks you’re at the start of a new
sentence but you don’t want to be.) There are commands to force or suppress capitalisation
of the next word.

21. Automatic
Capitalisation
Field 1:
I wanted to I wanted to
o
Iw anted t make you happy
u
m ak e y o Field 2:
happy make you happy
Dragon is designed (mostly) for dictating prose, so it understands that new sentences get
capital letters. If it doesn’t notice that you’ve moved from one input to the next, it may not
think you’re in a new sentence. (Conversely, sometimes it thinks you’re at the start of a new
sentence but you don’t want to be.) There are commands to force or suppress capitalisation
of the next word.

22. Express Editor
Dragon features an Express Editor which allows you to create a piece of text, editing as you
go, then insert it at the end. More tightly bound to Dragon, it makes fewer mistakes.

23. Express Editor
ah
blah blah bl
Dragon features an Express Editor which allows you to create a piece of text, editing as you
go, then insert it at the end. More tightly bound to Dragon, it makes fewer mistakes.

24. Express Editor
h
blah blah blah
blah b lah bla
Dragon features an Express Editor which allows you to create a piece of text, editing as you
go, then insert it at the end. More tightly bound to Dragon, it makes fewer mistakes.

25. Express Editor
h
blah blah blah
blah b lah bla
Express Editor:
blah blah blah
Dragon features an Express Editor which allows you to create a piece of text, editing as you
go, then insert it at the end. More tightly bound to Dragon, it makes fewer mistakes.

26. Express Editor
blah blah blah
Once it’s transferred, if you need to do further editing you can cache it back into Dragon.

27. Express Editor
t
blah blah blah
the tex
t ransfer
Once it’s transferred, if you need to do further editing you can cache it back into Dragon.

28. Express Editor
Text field:
t
blah blah blah blah blah
the tex
t ransfer
blah
Once it’s transferred, if you need to do further editing you can cache it back into Dragon.

29. Correcting Dictation
Ye Highlands and ye
Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl
O' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
* Sylvia Wright (1954). “The Death of Lady Mondegreen”. Harper’s Magazine 209 (1254): 48-51.
Dragon also has features for correcting dictation errors…

30. Correcting Dictation
Ye Highlands and ye
Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
d
ct “An
They hae slain the Earl
corre O' Moray,
Lady And Lady Mondegreen.
n”
Mon degree
* Sylvia Wright (1954). “The Death of Lady Mondegreen”. Harper’s Magazine 209 (1254): 48-51.
Dragon also has features for correcting dictation errors…

31. Correcting Dictation
Ye Highlands and ye
Correction options Lowlands,
1. And Lady Mondegreen Oh, where hae ye been?
d
ct “An
They hae slain the Earl
2. And laid him on the green
corre O' Moray,
Lady 3. and lady mondegreen And Lady Mondegreen.
n”
Mon degree
* Sylvia Wright (1954). “The Death of Lady Mondegreen”. Harper’s Magazine 209 (1254): 48-51.
Dragon also has features for correcting dictation errors…

32. Spelling Things Out
…spelling out words that Dragon doesn’t know and so on. Text use can be faster than
keyboard if trained well and used with discipline.

33. Spelling Things Out
Cinemato-
graphy by
…spelling out words that Dragon doesn’t know and so on. Text use can be faster than
keyboard if trained well and used with discipline.

34. Spelling Things Out
Cinemato-
e. graphy by
g Mod
Spellin
Julie t Alpha
er
N ovemb
ra
Unifo rm Sier
Zulu
…spelling out words that Dragon doesn’t know and so on. Text use can be faster than
keyboard if trained well and used with discipline.

35. Spelling Things Out
Cinemato-
e. Janusz graphy by
g Mod
Spellin
Julie t Alpha
er
N ovemb
ra
Unifo rm Sier
Zulu
…spelling out words that Dragon doesn’t know and so on. Text use can be faster than
keyboard if trained well and used with discipline.

36. Spelling Things Out
Cinemato-
e. Janusz graphy by
g Mod
Spellin Janusz
Julie t Alpha
er
N ovemb
ra
Unifo rm Sier
Zulu
…spelling out words that Dragon doesn’t know and so on. Text use can be faster than
keyboard if trained well and used with discipline.

37. Using Dragon:
Using the Mouse

38. Relative Mouse
Movement
Dragon provides two modes of mouse control. The first is relative movement, where you
move the mouse in a particular direction.

39. Relative Mouse
Movement
e
mov e mous
rig ht four
inches
Dragon provides two modes of mouse control. The first is relative movement, where you
move the mouse in a particular direction.

40. Relative Mouse
Movement
e
mov e mous
rig ht four
inches
Dragon provides two modes of mouse control. The first is relative movement, where you
move the mouse in a particular direction.

41. Absolute Mouse
Movement
The other is the mouse grid, where you progressively choose from within a 3x3 grid, getting
smaller until you reach where you want.

42. Absolute Mouse
Movement
.
Mouse Grid
The other is the mouse grid, where you progressively choose from within a 3x3 grid, getting
smaller until you reach where you want.

43. Absolute Mouse
Movement
.
Mouse Grid
The other is the mouse grid, where you progressively choose from within a 3x3 grid, getting
smaller until you reach where you want.

44. Absolute Mouse
Movement
G rid. 6.
Mouse

45. Absolute Mouse
Movement
.
G rid. 6. 1
Mouse

46. Absolute Mouse
Movement
k.
Mou se Clic
Finally you can click or drag or whatever. Mouse use is much slower by voice.

47. Using Dragon:
Other Features

48. App-Specific Commands
Dragon has a bunch of commands to make working with common applications easier.
[BUILD]
It’s perhaps worth pointing out that some of the more complex commands never work for
me. But a lot of the simpler ones do fine.

49. App-Specific Commands
man F rancis.
a rk Nor
ail to M .
Sen d an em cks to be you
late. Su
You’re essage
.
M
Se nd the
Dragon has a bunch of commands to make working with common applications easier.
[BUILD]
It’s perhaps worth pointing out that some of the more complex commands never work for
me. But a lot of the simpler ones do fine.

50. Web Browsing
Commands
On Windows there’s some great integration with web browsing, such as speakable form
inputs and links.

51. Web Browsing
Commands
Name:
On Windows there’s some great integration with web browsing, such as speakable form
inputs and links.

52. Web Browsing
Commands
.
name” Name:
Click “
On Windows there’s some great integration with web browsing, such as speakable form
inputs and links.

53. Web Browsing
Commands
.
name” Name:
Click “ t
Jame s Aylet James Aylett
On Windows there’s some great integration with web browsing, such as speakable form
inputs and links.

54. Custom Commands
You can also define custom commands, although on Windows you need the most expensive
version of DNS. On Mac you can fire keystrokes, AppleScript, shell scripts, Automator
workflows and so on. I use this to make it easier to drive things like Google Reader, which
has a good set of keyboard shortcuts that makes this easier. Generally, if you provide
keyboard shortcuts in webapps I can find a way of using it fairly easily by voice, with a bit of
work.

55. Implications For
Web Design

56. Beware Autoformatting
I talked earlier about Dragon not always knowing when it moves to a different input element
and getting capitalisation wrong. Because of the way it constructs sentences, it can also
insert a stray space at the beginning of a field. This causes a problem with validated
numbers. It’s also a problem with fixed length input elements. Both are big issues with
ecommerce and online banking.

57. Beware Autoformatting
6 digit number:
I talked earlier about Dragon not always knowing when it moves to a different input element
and getting capitalisation wrong. Because of the way it constructs sentences, it can also
insert a stray space at the beginning of a field. This causes a problem with validated
numbers. It’s also a problem with fixed length input elements. Both are big issues with
ecommerce and online banking.

58. Beware Autoformatting
. 6 digit number:
l 279841
N umera 279841
I talked earlier about Dragon not always knowing when it moves to a different input element
and getting capitalisation wrong. Because of the way it constructs sentences, it can also
insert a stray space at the beginning of a field. This causes a problem with validated
numbers. It’s also a problem with fixed length input elements. Both are big issues with
ecommerce and online banking.

59. Don’t Punish My Errors
ID:
123456
ID (repeat):
123456
PIN:
6789
PIN (repeat):
678
I’m going to make mistakes, either through my own stupidity or through mis-recognition by
Dragon. When that happens, don’t do what Santander’s online banking system does: throw
away validated parts of a form and make me input them again.

60. Don’t Punish My Errors
ID:
ID (repeat):
PIN:
PIN (repeat):

61. Don’t Punish My Errors
ID:
ID (repeat):
*$&£!
PIN:
PIN (repeat):

62. Think about Scrolling
If you want to make scrollable content only part of the page then you need to be aware of two
things. Firstly, you MUST focus the thing that should scroll, otherwise hitting Page Down/
Page Up (which is what voice users will do to scroll, effectively) does nothing.

63. Think about Scrolling
Focus the
scrollable area
If you want to make scrollable content only part of the page then you need to be aware of two
things. Firstly, you MUST focus the thing that should scroll, otherwise hitting Page Down/
Page Up (which is what voice users will do to scroll, effectively) does nothing.

64. Think about Scrolling
Floating navbar
A big load of text which is
going to scroll behind the
navbar and show how
annoying it can be when
people don’t think about
this carefully.
A big load of text which is
going to scroll behind the
navbar and show how
annoying it can be when
people don’t think about
this carefully.
A big load of text which is
Secondly, if you overlay anything fixed over the top or bottom of the scrollable content (such
as a navbar, advertising or whatever) then if it’s more than a single line of text high people
scrolling by page are going to MISS CONTENT AND BECOME IRRITATED.

65. Think about Scrolling
Floating navbar
Top of next page will
A big load of text which is
going to scroll behind the hide behind navbar
navbar and show how
annoying it can be when
people don’t think about
this carefully.
A big load of text which is
going to scroll behind the
navbar and show how
annoying it can be when
people don’t think about
this carefully.
A big load of text which is
Secondly, if you overlay anything fixed over the top or bottom of the scrollable content (such
as a navbar, advertising or whatever) then if it’s more than a single line of text high people
scrolling by page are going to MISS CONTENT AND BECOME IRRITATED.

66. Think about Scrolling
Floating navbar Floating navbar
Top of next page will
A big load of text which is navbar and show how
going to scroll behind the hide behind navbar annoying it can be when
navbar and show how people don’t think about
annoying it can be when this carefully.
people don’t think about A big load of text which is
this carefully. going to scroll behind the
A big load of text which is navbar and show how
going to scroll behind the annoying it can be when
navbar and show how people don’t think about
annoying it can be when this carefully.
people don’t think about A big load of text which is
this carefully. going to scroll behind the
A big load of text which is navbar and show how
Secondly, if you overlay anything fixed over the top or bottom of the scrollable content (such
as a navbar, advertising or whatever) then if it’s more than a single line of text high people
scrolling by page are going to MISS CONTENT AND BECOME IRRITATED.

67. Think about Overlays
Confirm
password:
xxxxxxxxxx
Overlays, little in-page popups to do specific tasks, are almost as trendy as putting navbars
over scrolling content. There are two things you that particularly impact voice users: make
sure Escape closes the current overlay (in one go; some of Twitter’s take two Escapes because
the first just unfocusses the input element), and also MOVE FOCUS to something in the
overlay. If you don’t do the latter, then I have to either use mouse control or tab through all
the elements on the page *behind* the overlay to get to the things you want me to interact
with. (This is all just Good Practice, by the way.)

68. Think about Overlays
Support escape
Confirm to close as well
password:
xxxxxxxxxx
Overlays, little in-page popups to do specific tasks, are almost as trendy as putting navbars
over scrolling content. There are two things you that particularly impact voice users: make
sure Escape closes the current overlay (in one go; some of Twitter’s take two Escapes because
the first just unfocusses the input element), and also MOVE FOCUS to something in the
overlay. If you don’t do the latter, then I have to either use mouse control or tab through all
the elements on the page *behind* the overlay to get to the things you want me to interact
with. (This is all just Good Practice, by the way.)

69. Think about Overlays
Support escape
Confirm to close as well
Focus this password:
xxxxxxxxxx
input element
Overlays, little in-page popups to do specific tasks, are almost as trendy as putting navbars
over scrolling content. There are two things you that particularly impact voice users: make
sure Escape closes the current overlay (in one go; some of Twitter’s take two Escapes because
the first just unfocusses the input element), and also MOVE FOCUS to something in the
overlay. If you don’t do the latter, then I have to either use mouse control or tab through all
the elements on the page *behind* the overlay to get to the things you want me to interact
with. (This is all just Good Practice, by the way.)

70. Beware Focus Events
Tweet
This is kind of like overlays. Twitter does a neat thing in its web app: if you haven’t typed into
a tweet reply box, when you blur away (eg by switching application), it collapses the box
again. Please don’t do this.

71. Beware Focus Events
s
Open Expres Tweet
Editor
This is kind of like overlays. Twitter does a neat thing in its web app: if you haven’t typed into
a tweet reply box, when you blur away (eg by switching application), it collapses the box
again. Please don’t do this.

72. Beware Focus Events
Open Express
s
Open Expres Editor Tweet
Editor
This is kind of like overlays. Twitter does a neat thing in its web app: if you haven’t typed into
a tweet reply box, when you blur away (eg by switching application), it collapses the box
again. Please don’t do this.

73. Beware Focus Events
If I’ve opened the Express Editor then the tweet box has disappeared. When I go to transfer
the text back…

74. Beware Focus Events
Express Editor:
If I’ve opened the Express Editor then the tweet box has disappeared. When I go to transfer
the text back…

75. Beware Focus Events
ah
blah blah bl
Express Editor:
If I’ve opened the Express Editor then the tweet box has disappeared. When I go to transfer
the text back…

76. Beware Focus Events
h
blah blah blah
blah b lah bla
Express Editor:
If I’ve opened the Express Editor then the tweet box has disappeared. When I go to transfer
the text back…

77. Beware Focus Events
h
blah blah blah
blah b lah bla
Express Editor:
blah blah blah
If I’ve opened the Express Editor then the tweet box has disappeared. When I go to transfer
the text back…

78. Beware Focus Events
t
blah blah blah
the tex
t ransfer
Nothing is focussed, and the text SIMPLY DISAPPEARS. If I open the Express Editor again, it’s
not there either. With a tweet it’s just frustrating; do this on a serious length of text and it’s
infuriating.

79. Beware Focus Events

80. Implications:
Autocomplete
This has a few pieces, so I’ve split it out separately.

81. Support Browser
Autocomplete
Some things are painful to dictate; email addresses, for instance. I can shift into spelling
mode, but that takes time. I can type a single character fairly easily however, and then let
browser autocomplete kick in.
So: don’t explicitly disable autocomplete; and GIVE YOUR INPUT ELEMENTS NAMES. Even when
only using Javascript. Also: don’t only use Javascript.

82. Support Browser
Autocomplete
Email:
Some things are painful to dictate; email addresses, for instance. I can shift into spelling
mode, but that takes time. I can type a single character fairly easily however, and then let
browser autocomplete kick in.
So: don’t explicitly disable autocomplete; and GIVE YOUR INPUT ELEMENTS NAMES. Even when
only using Javascript. Also: don’t only use Javascript.

83. Support Browser
Autocomplete
Email:
e key “Juliet”
h
Press t
Some things are painful to dictate; email addresses, for instance. I can shift into spelling
mode, but that takes time. I can type a single character fairly easily however, and then let
browser autocomplete kick in.
So: don’t explicitly disable autocomplete; and GIVE YOUR INPUT ELEMENTS NAMES. Even when
only using Javascript. Also: don’t only use Javascript.

84. Support Browser
Autocomplete
Email:
j
e key “Juliet”
h
Press t james@tartarus.org
Name:
jaylett@gmail.com
james@devfort.com
Some things are painful to dictate; email addresses, for instance. I can shift into spelling
mode, but that takes time. I can type a single character fairly easily however, and then let
browser autocomplete kick in.
So: don’t explicitly disable autocomplete; and GIVE YOUR INPUT ELEMENTS NAMES. Even when
only using Javascript. Also: don’t only use Javascript.

85. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
If I start dictating a name, do NOT autocomplete inline. This is what Mail.app does, and
fortunately I haven’t found a website trying to do the same. The problem is if I mis-speak, or
Dragon incorrectly recognises what I say.

86. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
To:
If I start dictating a name, do NOT autocomplete inline. This is what Mail.app does, and
fortunately I haven’t found a website trying to do the same. The problem is if I mis-speak, or
Dragon incorrectly recognises what I say.

87. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
To:
James
If I start dictating a name, do NOT autocomplete inline. This is what Mail.app does, and
fortunately I haven’t found a website trying to do the same. The problem is if I mis-speak, or
Dragon incorrectly recognises what I say.

88. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
To:
James James Aylett
If I start dictating a name, do NOT autocomplete inline. This is what Mail.app does, and
fortunately I haven’t found a website trying to do the same. The problem is if I mis-speak, or
Dragon incorrectly recognises what I say.

89. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
Correction options
1. James
To:
t“ James” 2. Chains
Correc James Aylett
3. Jane’s
The problem is that Dragon’s internal cache of the “document” (the field contents) is wrong.
It thinks the input just contains “James”, but the browser (your app via Javascript) has added
another word.

90. Cautious Application
Autocomplete
Correction options
1. James
To:
2 2. Chains
Choose James AChains
3. Jane’s
So when Dragon applies the correction, it simply deletes the five characters it put in, and
types new ones in their place. But it’s typing over the automatically added characters, not the
original dictation. Leaving a mess.

91. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
Country:
Please select
I hate country lists. The is no correct way of doing a country dropdown: alphabetical and it’s
too long for most people to find their country, out of order and I have no idea what’s going
on (because merely tabbing to a dropdown usually doesn’t open it, and even if it does it’s
often not long enough to guess what’s going on). Worse, I don’t know if you’ve used “United
Kingdom”, “Great Britain”, “UK”, or even “England”. (Three of these are technically correct.)

92. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
Country:
?
Erm… Please select
I hate country lists. The is no correct way of doing a country dropdown: alphabetical and it’s
too long for most people to find their country, out of order and I have no idea what’s going
on (because merely tabbing to a dropdown usually doesn’t open it, and even if it does it’s
often not long enough to guess what’s going on). Worse, I don’t know if you’ve used “United
Kingdom”, “Great Britain”, “UK”, or even “England”. (Three of these are technically correct.)

93. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
Country:
Please select
I can open up the dropdown, but unless the entry is near the top (and I can get there by
arrow keys, which are fairly easy to drive by voice) I still have to speak the country. If I say
“United”, then depending on list order sometimes I get “United Kingdom”, and sometimes
“United Arab Emirates” in which case saying “Kingdom” will probably get me to the right
place. If “United” gets me “United Kingdom” and I don’t notice then saying “Kingdom” after a
pause will end up on “Kiribati”. If “United Kingdom” was automatically selected originally and
I didn’t notice, saying “United” can (unexpectedly) wind up selecting “Iran”.

94. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
Country:
.
Dow n arrow Please select
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
I can open up the dropdown, but unless the entry is near the top (and I can get there by
arrow keys, which are fairly easy to drive by voice) I still have to speak the country. If I say
“United”, then depending on list order sometimes I get “United Kingdom”, and sometimes
“United Arab Emirates” in which case saying “Kingdom” will probably get me to the right
place. If “United” gets me “United Kingdom” and I don’t notice then saying “Kingdom” after a
pause will end up on “Kiribati”. If “United Kingdom” was automatically selected originally and
I didn’t notice, saying “United” can (unexpectedly) wind up selecting “Iran”.

95. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
If you do a smart autocomplete, I can just dictate the country name in, and then you validate
when I’ve stopped talking (ie you stop receiving keypress / change events). It’s also probably
easier for everyone else in the world who hates long dropdowns. Notably this is what airlines
use these days for selecting airports, and while there are a lot more airports than countries,
there are more than enough of each to justify doing this.

96. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
Country:
If you do a smart autocomplete, I can just dictate the country name in, and then you validate
when I’ve stopped talking (ie you stop receiving keypress / change events). It’s also probably
easier for everyone else in the world who hates long dropdowns. Notably this is what airlines
use these days for selecting airports, and while there are a lot more airports than countries,
there are more than enough of each to justify doing this.

97. But Do Please
Implement Autocomplete
m Country:
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If you do a smart autocomplete, I can just dictate the country name in, and then you validate
when I’ve stopped talking (ie you stop receiving keypress / change events). It’s also probably
easier for everyone else in the world who hates long dropdowns. Notably this is what airlines
use these days for selecting airports, and while there are a lot more airports than countries,
there are more than enough of each to justify doing this.

98. Live Demo
Hold your breath.

99. Questions?
@jaylett
http://bit.ly/accessible-by-voice