Whether you are designing, developing, testing or auditing, a contrast ratio checker is the best way to ensure your site or app passes accessibility criteria. As a designer you can use a simple value checker to plug in foreground and background color value as you use them. You could also use other tools to check final design designsContinueContinue reading “Best Color Contrast Checkers for Accessibility Testing”
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How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier
There’s a lot of content out there on how to make your website accessible. But I haven’t seen much on the subject of accessibility to users of screen magnifiers. I’m one of them, and I frequently run into annoying issues on the web.In this article, I’ll give some tips on how you can make yourContinueContinue reading “How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier”
GitHub – pa11y/pa11y: Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal
Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal. It runs HTML CodeSniffer from the command line for programmatic accessibility reporting. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: GitHub – pa11y/pa11y: Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal
Accessibility Testing: Checkers & Development Tools Review
Tools of the Trade In a different article, I outline the basics foundations of accessibility standards: “Understanding s508 & WCAG 2.0”. To further expand this, let’s look at various development tools to help author accessible content conformant to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.0 standards. Getting Started For a primer or refresher on whatContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Testing: Checkers & Development Tools Review”
Four Free Tools for Automated Accessibility Testing of Web Apps
Designing and developing for web accessibility has become a requirement of modern computing. Depending on the content and complexity of your project requirements, it can also be a very difficult pursuit. Two colleagues of mine have already written excellent articles exploring the need for and design of accessible web sites: Designing Accessible Software – BreakingContinueContinue reading “Four Free Tools for Automated Accessibility Testing of Web Apps”
iOS App VoiceOver Accessibility Teaching and Testing Plan | AppleVis
VoiceOver, a feature Apple has built into all iOS devices to enable Braille and speech access for users who are unable to see the screen, has revolutionized the lives of countless thousands of blind people around the world. It works best when apps are deliberately developed in ways that ensure compatibility with VoiceOver, blind peopleContinueContinue reading “iOS App VoiceOver Accessibility Teaching and Testing Plan | AppleVis”
Danger! Testing Accessibility with real people — Medium
As four people who are blind and care deeply about making the web more accessible, we strongly believe user testing should include people with disabilities. But when the results are misinterpreted, it can be dangerous. It can foster action that appears to benefit people with disabilities but ultimately do as much harm as good. …ContinueContinue reading “Danger! Testing Accessibility with real people — Medium”
The importance of manual testing alongside automated accessibility tools
There are many free and paid automated tools available to help you identify accessibility issues in your websites, apps and digital channels. Automatic accessibility checking tools are useful to broadly identify problems and start developing a plan to fix them, and engaging human experts throughout this process is important to achieve the best result. Here’sContinueContinue reading “The importance of manual testing alongside automated accessibility tools”
Paul Adam Bookmarklets For Accessibility – Maxability
Paul J Adam the well known expert in the accessibility industry has published bookmarklets for testing the accessibility bugs on web pages. These bookmarklets are easy to use. All that you need is a web browser and internet connection to use them. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Paul Adam Bookmarklets For AccessibilityContinueContinue reading “Paul Adam Bookmarklets For Accessibility – Maxability”
Katrina the Tester: Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway
Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway This pathway is a tool to help guide your self development in accessibility and usability testing. It includes a variety of steps that you may approach linearly or by hopping about to those that interest you most. Each step includes: links to a few resources as a starting point, but youContinueContinue reading “Katrina the Tester: Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway”
How the State of Minnesota Increased Accessibility Awareness in Just 15 Minutes
Siteimprove Web Governance Blog Last May, the State of Minnesota’s information technology office (MN.IT Services) highlighted web accessibility by attempting the “No Mouse Challenge” for Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Noting that “if a document, application or system cannot support mouseless operation, it may not support assistive technology or accessibility tools,” state employees were challenged to visitContinueContinue reading “How the State of Minnesota Increased Accessibility Awareness in Just 15 Minutes”
My Approach to Mobile Accessibility Testing – Ministry of Testing
When I get asked by team members about mobile accessibility, I am often asked how difficult it is compared to desktop accessibility testing. Often the questions indicate how many assume that mobile accessibility is a completely different beast to traditional functional and accessibility software testing. This has prompted me to write this … Curated byContinueContinue reading “My Approach to Mobile Accessibility Testing – Ministry of Testing”
Diagnostic.css – Super quick web accessibility testing – Karl Groves
In my quest to make accessibility accessible, I’ve created a super-easy-to-use tool that people can use to do accessibility testing. If you can view the page in the browser, you can use this tool. Diagnostic.css is a CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) file which, when applied to a web page, will highlight accessibility errors in the page.ContinueContinue reading “Diagnostic.css – Super quick web accessibility testing – Karl Groves”
Web Accessibility Testing for the Rest of Us
Accessibility testing can be a daunting task, especially when one does not know where to start. With so many things to take into consideration and so many tools to choose from, the least we can say is that it’s very easy to feel lost! This class is intended for anyone who doesn’t consider himself orContinueContinue reading “Web Accessibility Testing for the Rest of Us”
Making sure it works – testing the new London.gov.uk | London City Hall
Testing software and websites is a challenge. We need to ensure that the final product is fit for purpose, and as good as it can possibly be. We must also understand it can never be totally free of bugs. We do lots of different types of testing from User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to performance andContinueContinue reading “Making sure it works – testing the new London.gov.uk | London City Hall”
