Yesterday I organized a workshop with eleven interaction design students to explain how keyboard navigation and voice assistant technology works.
After teaching them how to use voice over / narrator shortcuts, the task was to navigate through SNCF connect website without screen and try to book a Lyon Marseille ticket for next Saturday under 40€, with an assistance dog during the travel.

Only one succeeded after an hour but didn't find where to put the dog🐕‍🦺⁉️. Three students from Singapour didn't find how to put the website in English on the main page after closing three pop-ups in French.

They shared their experience at the end, wrote down how they felt, they were mostly frustrated, exhausted, pissed off at not being able to do a task they usually do under 10min

@MoritzBrouhaha

@alex

😁 we travelled from Zürich to Avingnon three weeks ago. SBB was unable to book a ticket for our dog, neither did the SNCF in Mulhouse. Instead the later provided us with a hand-written and stamped letter to explain the situation to the train personell...
Finally on all four trains we had to take the dog was completely ignored by the train staff ... guess there is a profound awareness of their own usability issues🤣