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A11Y-DRGN-007

Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus

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MethodSpeech-recognition journey
TesterExperienced speech-input tester
Indicative effort69–100 min small scope

Checks Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus using real Dragon speech recognition with a trained voice profile.

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Purpose

What this test checks

Checks Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus using real Dragon speech recognition with a trained voice profile.

What this result means: This procedure records how Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus behaves on windows-dragon-chrome. It can expose evidence relevant to WCAG 2.1.1, 2.4.3 and 4.1.2 for the tested task and environment. Use the linked conformance procedures for WCAG 2.1.1, 2.4.3 and 4.1.2 to assess the complete requirements across the declared conformance scope.

Why it matters

Checks Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus using real Dragon speech recognition with a trained voice profile. People most likely affected: people who use speech recognition because mouse, touch or sustained keyboard input is difficult or unavailable. Controls may not be directly targetable, text may be corrupted or the task may require pointer fallback. In the recorded windows-dragon-chrome environment, test visible labels, spoken activation, dictation, correction and recovery with the named speech system; ambiguous names or keyboard-only fallbacks can prevent hands-free completion.

When to use it

Apply Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus when the frozen desktop task executed with the recorded Dragon edition, trained profile and browser environment. The selected focus is Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.

Confirm before starting

Mark it not applicable only when

Exceptions

This platform, journey, usability or quality procedure creates no additional normative exception. Apply exceptions only in the linked atomic or criterion-level conformance procedure and preserve that separate decision.

Prepare

What you need

  • The product area and test targets are agreed before testing starts.
  • The operating system, browser, viewport and input method are recorded.
  • Test data is safe to use and does not expose unnecessary personal information.

Targets and required variations

  • The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
  • Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful.
  • Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope.

Clean state

  • Complete a known-good calibration in the same environment before product testing.
  • Start from a recorded clean or known state and preserve any prior preferences, extensions, cache or profile settings that can affect output.

Effort estimate

Setup
20 min
Per target
25 min
Evidence
12 min
Technical review
12 min

Assumptions: one short journey with a trained speech profile; custom vocabularies and correction flows add preparation and repeat time

Variation: Add a new per-target execution and evidence allowance for each additional target class or state that could produce a different result. Add setup time for each distinct environment.

Excluded: Client coordination, inaccessible-environment recovery, recruitment, legal review, remediation implementation and waiting time unless the procedure states otherwise.

Execute

Test steps

Follow each action in order. The expected result is always visible; open the guidance when you need setup, tool, evidence, decision or repeat details. Step-level recording is optional while work is in progress and required only to export a completed execution.

Step 1

Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings

Purpose: For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, prepare the named scenario: Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings. Target: The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus. The preparation must establish this result: The real speech-recognition environment is reproducible and command recognition is reliable before product testing.

User impact: Controls may not be directly targetable, text may be corrupted or the task may require pointer fallback. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings.

Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings; calibrate speech input on a known-good page.

Expected result

The real speech-recognition environment is reproducible and command recognition is reliable before product testing.

Failure observation

During Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The real speech-recognition environment is reproducible and command recognition is reliable before product testing.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Required state
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, begin in a clean Dragon profile with the selected microphone connected, the browser extension state recorded and a known-good calibration page ready; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In windows-dragon-chrome, use Dragon's version, profile, microphone and Options information plus the browser extension state. Run a fixed phrase and direct target on a known-good supported page before product testing.
Record
Dragon edition/version, trained profile, microphone, browser/extension, vocabulary and clean-state calibration.
Pass
Record passed for the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings only when the evidence (Dragon edition/version, trained profile, microphone, browser/extension, vocabulary and clean-state calibration.) supports: The real speech-recognition environment is reproducible and command recognition is reliable before product testing.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: During Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The real speech-recognition environment is reproducible and command recognition is reliable before product testing.
Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Correct the microphone, profile, extension or audio condition and create a new calibration observation before product testing.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Record Dragon edition/version, voice-profile status, Windows/Chrome versions, microphone/headset, audio environment and vocabulary settings for Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in windows-dragon-chrome. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
Use a fixed known-good phrase and target. Do not train or tune the profile during the product run without recording a new baseline.
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Step 2

Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task

Purpose: For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, execute the named scenario: Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task. Target: The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus. Compare the observation with this result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

User impact: Controls may not be directly targetable, text may be corrupted or the task may require pointer fallback. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task.

Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task; open each selected dialog or disclosure by visible name, operate its controls, trigger its visible status or confirmation, and close or cancel it with a named command or `Press Escape`. Record focus, active command context and the element available when the invoking task resumes.

Expected result

Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Required state
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, begin in the invoking control before opening the dialog or disclosure, followed by its open state, visible status or confirmation and the state immediately after closure; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In windows-dragon-chrome, Use Dragon Professional v16 with the recorded microphone, trained profile and enabled Web Extension. Perform the documented command in the action. For a named web target, say `click <visible name>`; if Dragon reports multiple matches, use its documented `choose <n>` command. Record MouseGrid, mouse movement or manual pointer input as fallback, not direct targeting.
Record
Success, application error, interruption, recovery and confirmation plus mouse/grid/keyboard fallbacks.
Pass
Record passed for the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task only when the evidence (Success, application error, interruption, recovery and confirmation plus mouse/grid/keyboard fallbacks.) supports: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.
Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat the task with naturally spoken commands, one recognition correction and one application error/recovery path; do not count numbered-grid or pointer fallback as a direct-target pass. Repeat direct activation, text entry, correction and recovery with the same voice profile. Preserve use of `choose <n>` as disambiguation and record MouseGrid, mouse movement, physical keyboard or pointer input separately as fallback. Preserve the first Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus observation when repeating.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task for Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in windows-dragon-chrome. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus: First confirm that Dragon recognises the same phrase in a known-good supported application. Separate microphone or recognition errors from a control that Dragon cannot address. Dragon's `choose <n>` multiple-match command is not MouseGrid and must not be classified as pointer fallback.
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Step 3

Repeat material variations and recovery

Purpose: For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, execute the named scenario: Repeat material variations and recovery. Target: The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus. Compare the observation with this result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

User impact: Controls may not be directly targetable, text may be corrupted or the task may require pointer fallback. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Repeat material variations and recovery.

Repeat the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus action for each inventoried variation that can change the outcome. Include relevant default, revealed, error, interruption, recovery and confirmation states and complete the selected process from start to finish where this test can affect task completion.

Expected result

Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Required state
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus: Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful. Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope.
Tool or command
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, use the same recorded method, then change only the state, environment or recovery condition being compared.
Record
Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.
Pass
Record passed for the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery only when the evidence (Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.) supports: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.
Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Repeat material variations and recovery for Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in windows-dragon-chrome. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, change one material condition at a time where practical. Do not assume that a passing default state covers errors, overlays, orientation changes, interruptions or recovery.
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Step 4

Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence

Purpose: For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, complete the record for the scenario named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence and preserve evidence that demonstrates this result: Evidence distinguishes product targeting defects from speech-recognition or microphone errors.

User impact: Controls may not be directly targetable, text may be corrupted or the task may require pointer fallback. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence.

Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence.

Expected result

Evidence distinguishes product targeting defects from speech-recognition or microphone errors.

Failure observation

The Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus evidence or decision record for the scenario named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence does not demonstrate the required result: Evidence distinguishes product targeting defects from speech-recognition or microphone errors.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Required state
For Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus, begin in the completed product action before focus, command history, recognition output or application state is reset; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In windows-dragon-chrome, preserve Dragon recognition history when available or make contemporaneous command notes; capture the intended target, actual target, focus/state and visible result before resetting the page.
Record
Recognised command, intended target, actual target, focus/state and recognition correction.
Pass
Record passed for the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence only when the evidence (Recognised command, intended target, actual target, focus/state and recognition correction.) supports: Evidence distinguishes product targeting defects from speech-recognition or microphone errors.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: The Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus evidence or decision record for the scenario named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence does not demonstrate the required result: Evidence distinguishes product targeting defects from speech-recognition or microphone errors.
Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
If the command history is unavailable, repeat once with contemporaneous notes or an authorised recording method and preserve the first observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Save recognised-command history or contemporaneous command notes, target names, focus/state sequence, recognition errors and outcome evidence for Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in windows-dragon-chrome. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
Write the phrase Dragon heard, the intended command and what the product did as three separate facts.
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Decide

How to decide

Passed

Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

Failed

An applicable Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target has a reproducible material barrier against one or more stated expectations; identify the exact expectation, state and evidence.

Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
Cannot tell
The target is applicable, but conflicting evidence or unresolved responsibility prevents a defensible expectation decision after recorded comparison.
Not tested
An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Aggregation and reporting boundaries

Aggregation: Preserve every target/environment outcome. Any failed target prevents an overall passed procedure result. cantTell and untested remain unresolved; inapplicable is valid only when the completed inventory contains no applicable target.

WCAG decision: This specialist, platform, document, usability or quality result does not set a WCAG success criterion to satisfied or not_satisfied automatically. Use linked atomic and criterion-level procedures for that separate decision.

Automation: A checker, accessibility-tree inspection, emulator or simulated assistive technology is diagnostic evidence only. Complete every required manual, real-platform, contextual and exception check.

Record

Record the result

Record the target, state and observed behaviour. Add evidence or technical details only when needed.

Choose the option that best matches what happened to this target.

Describe the actual behaviour and why it supports the selected result.

When more than one target is recorded, the overall procedure result is calculated from all target results.

Environment: Not set.
Add evidence or details

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Evidence references

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Test environment

Save a named profile once to reuse the same product, platform and environment details on other procedures in this browser.

Engagement and tester identifiers

Assistive-technology execution confirmation

Use these statements only for work actually performed. Simulation or accessibility-tree inspection does not count as real assistive-technology coverage.

Formal completion and limitations

Identify the frozen list or sampling record used to select every target represented by this execution.

Choose a final result before marking the execution complete. Completed records require the full environment, step, evidence and method-specific information.

Data management

Export before clearing if the record must be retained. Apply the engagement retention schedule and delete browser data when it is no longer needed.

Saved drafts stay in this browser and are not uploaded. Do not enter credentials, secrets or unnecessary personal data.

Reference

Supporting information

Standards and requirement mappings
  • W3C-WCAG22 · 2.1.1 secondary · partial

    This Speech-recognition journey observes Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in the recorded windows-dragon-chrome environment. Use the linked WCAG 2.1.1 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 2.1.1 across the declared scope.

  • W3C-WCAG22 · 2.4.3 secondary · partial

    This Speech-recognition journey observes Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in the recorded windows-dragon-chrome environment. Use the linked WCAG 2.4.3 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 2.4.3 across the declared scope.

  • W3C-WCAG22 · 4.1.2 secondary · partial

    This Speech-recognition journey observes Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus in the recorded windows-dragon-chrome environment. Use the linked WCAG 4.1.2 conformance procedure to evaluate all normative parts of WCAG 4.1.2 across the declared scope.

  • GOVUK-AT-TESTING · GOVUK-AT-TESTING platform · supporting

    This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.

  • W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES · W3C-WCAG22-TECHNIQUES platform · supporting

    This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.

  • NUANCE-DRAGON-DOCS · NUANCE-DRAGON-DOCS platform · supporting

    Vendor documentation defines product operation only. It does not override WCAG or prove product accessibility.

Supporting and advisory guidance

Supporting sources are identified in the mappings and source register. They do not add conformance requirements.

Evidence specification
  • Environment record

    Dragon edition/version, trained profile, microphone, browser/extension, vocabulary and clean-state calibration.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

  • Command record

    Recognised command, intended target, actual target, focus/state and recognition correction.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

  • Journey record

    Success, application error, interruption, recovery and confirmation plus mouse/grid/keyboard fallbacks.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

Worked example and outcome calibration

A11Y-DRGN-007-WORKED-001: representative worked example

Context: Representative synthetic example for Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus on a fictional, version-frozen product target; no client or participant execution occurred.

Inspected: The tester follows S2 (Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task) using the target, required state, tool and repeat rule stated in this procedure.

Observed output: After the tester completes the Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus scenario named Operate dialogs and resume the invoking task, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

Evidence:

  • example-evidence-001: target and state record for The selected controls, text entry and task states relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.
  • example-evidence-002: contemporaneous observation from the named method — Success, application error, interruption, recovery and confirmation plus mouse/grid/keyboard fallbacks.
  • example-evidence-003: comparison note linking the actual observation to the expected result and claim boundary

Tester reasoning: The recorded observation does not demonstrate the expected result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input. The failed decision is limited to this synthetic target and state; unexecuted coverage is not inferred.

Decision: failed

Finding: A11Y-DRGN-007-example-finding-001 — Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus: expected result is not demonstrated. The represented barrier may affect People who use speech recognition because mouse, touch or sustained keyboard input is difficult or unavailable.

Remediation: Change the represented target or process so it demonstrates this result: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input. Then rerun the affected step and every dependent variation.

Reviewer feedback: The reviewer confirms applicability, environment, actual-versus-expected comparison, evidence references and bounded wording; unsupported product-wide or conformance language is removed.

Final client wording: Synthetic training finding: the sampled Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target does not meet the procedure expectation in the recorded state. User impact and broader scope require evidence from the buyer's real execution.

Retest: Synthetic retest example: after the represented change, repeat the failed step plus material error and recovery states. Close the finding only when new evidence demonstrates the expected result; otherwise retain the non-pass outcome.

Boundary: This is a representative, synthetic worked example for training and calibration. It is not evidence from a client product, participant or real assistive-technology execution.

Outcome calibration

Passed
In windows-dragon-chrome, the selected Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target completes the recorded action and meets this expectation: Dialog controls remain operable by documented Dragon commands, the resulting status is perceivable in the tested task, and closing returns the user to a predictable continuation point without pointer or manual-keyboard input.

The example is a calibration scenario, not an execution or approval.

Failed
An applicable Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target produces a reproducible barrier during the named action, with the exact state and affected user task recorded.

A failed target remains failed even if another environment or target passes.

Not applicable
The frozen scope contains no control, text entry or task relevant to Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus.

Inapplicable requires a completed inventory showing that no target matches applicability; a missing environment is not inapplicable.

Cannot tell
The Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target is applicable, but conflicting product/platform evidence or missing authoritative information prevents a defensible responsibility or expectation decision.

Record the conflict, comparisons attempted and person or evidence needed to resolve it.

Not tested
The Dragon dialogs, notifications and focus target is applicable, but a required state, complete process or real environment was not executed.

Untested remains incomplete and cannot be converted to passed or inapplicable.

Sampling, complete processes and platform limitations

Run each selected critical journey from start to finish, including its main error and recovery paths. Record which journeys and states were included.

If this check is part of a user journey, test the selected journey from start to finish, including relevant errors and recovery. Record any path that was not tested.

  • Only real Dragon execution with the recorded profile and environment provides coverage. Grid or pointer emulation may demonstrate a workaround but does not prove direct speech targeting; recognition errors must be separated from product defects.
  • Check relevant browser, tool or assistive-technology release notes before assigning unexpected behaviour to the product.
  • If responsibility is unclear, record the reproducible behaviour and use cannot tell until it is resolved.
Related procedures
  • A11Y-WCAG-021
  • A11Y-WCAG-029
  • A11Y-WCAG-054
ACT rules and WCAG technique traceability

This is a project-authored manual procedure, not a W3C Approved ACT Rule. An ACT result can support only the part of this procedure covered by that rule. It does not replace the remaining manual or assistive-technology checks.

No supporting W3C Approved ACT Rule is selected for this procedure.

  • Understanding SC 2.1.1. Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion.
  • Understanding SC 2.4.3. Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion.
  • Understanding SC 4.1.2. Techniques are examples, not extra requirements. Record any technique or common failure used, but decide the result against the success criterion.
Review history and source register
  1. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Reworked for plain language, case-focused steps, scoped evidence and transparent draft review status.
  2. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Migrated to professional catalogue schema v3 with separated outcomes, structured authority, applicability, evidence, decision and review records.
  3. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Specialist procedure mapped to its task family and current first-party platform guidance and checked for internal consistency; competent review and real execution remain separate.
  4. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Added explicit preparation and variation/recovery steps plus a bounded representative worked example for paid-template use.
  5. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Procedure guidance and presentation simplified without changing draft governance status.

Review decision: pending. Open issues: Execute all required real environments and calibration cases.; Complete a distinct competent review and retain any unresolved material finding as blocked or cantTell.

Source historyReport an accuracy issue
WCAG
SC 2.1.1, SC 2.4.3, SC 4.1.2
Execution
Real device and assistive technology
Catalogue version
2026.08.27-rc.9