Accessibility Testing

Why accessibility testing is important

Accessibility testing (or A11y testing) is about ensuring your website or application can be accessed and used by everyone, including the 24% of UK people (16.1 million) that have reported having a disability.
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Organisations also have a legal obligation to make sure that their website and web or mobile apps are accessible and meet legal guidelines such as Equality Act in the UK, European Accessibility Act (EEA), Section 508 and accessibility standards such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA.
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Recent web accessibility testing projects include:

Accessibility testing for a student accommodation website.

Testing accessibility for several charity websites.

Carrying out accessibility checks for an interactive video SaaS.

Website accessibility testing for several Shopify ecommerce sites.

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Accessibility testing approaches

Web accessibility software tools

We use the latest web and mobile app accessibility tools to scan, locate and report on accessibility problems. This is often the first step in assessing a website's accessibility to pick up the most critical and severe accessibility problems.

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Screen readers

Screen reading software, such as NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack, needs to be able to access and convert text, images and UI elements into speech for blind or visually impaired users. Many websites have problems that affect the ability of screen reader users to navigate, use and understand web content.

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Keyboard operability

Many people are unable to use a mouse to navigate and interact with a website or web application. Keyboard operability is a critical accessibility requirement that all functionality is usable from a keyboard.

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Zoom + increased text size

It should be possible to enlarge content by up to 200% without loss of functionality or causing page layouts to break. We test to make sure it is possible to zoom in, zoom out, adjust font sizes and use magnification without causing any website problems.

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Independant Accessibility Testing

Accessibility Testing Services

Accessibility Testing is one of the testing types that are included in our Testing Services - whether that is an ongoing service, such as Testing On Demand or Retained Testing, or a project-based service for testing new websites or web applications.

We also assess accessibility when we carry out website audits for CMS sites and Ecommerce sites.

Keeping up to date with accessibility guidelines and standards is important and, as they change and adapt to keep pace with legislation and technology it means that a regular accessibility assessment is a good idea.

Let's have a chat to talk about accessibility testing for your web project.
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Accessibility Testing Projects