Web Accessibility Testing

What is accessibility testing?

Who is it for?

"About 56.7 million people — 19 percent of the population — had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability, with more than half of them reporting the disability was severe, according to a comprehensive report on this population released today by the U.S. Census Bureau."

2010 Census Bureau, "Nearly 1 in 5 People Have a Disability in the U.S."

4 categories of disabilities

Visual

Auditory

Motor

Cognitive

What does it mean to be accessible?

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Perceivable

Operable

Understandable

Robust

Why should VU do it?

One out of every ten veterans alive today was seriously injured at some point while serving in the military, and three-quarters of those injuries occurred in combat.

Pew Social Trends Survey 2011, "For Many Injured Veterans, A Lifetime of Consequences"

Whole team effort

Designers

Product Owners

Developers

Quality Assurance Analysts

Where do we start?

Browser plug-ins

No-Coffee Vision Simulator

Browser plug-ins

No-Coffee Vision Simulator

Wave - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Browser plug-ins

No-Coffee Vision Simulator

Wave - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

aXe - Accessibility Testing

Automating the process

Using the data

Implementing accessibility testing

Resources

a11yproject.com

github.com/dequelabs/axe-core

github.com/dequelabs/axe-webdriverjs

w3.org/TR/WCAG20