A11y presentation accessibility testing for qa
- 1. Accessibility Testing for QA By Shraddha Chauhan Shraddha.a11y@gmail.com
- 2. What is Accessibility Testing Accessibility Testing - Ensure that the application being tested is usable by people with disabilities Accessibility Testing is subset of Usability
- 3. Disabilities and Assistive Technology Visually Impaired Cognitive DisabilityHearing Impaired Mobility Impaired Complete Blindness or Color Blindness or Poor Vision Visual strobe and flashing effect problems Auditory problems like deafness and hearing impairments Not able to hear or not able to hear clearly Not able to use the mouse or keyboard with one hand. Poor motor skills like hand movements and muscle slowness Learning Difficulties or Poor Memory or not able to understand more complex scenarios Screenreaders Braille Display Keyboard Only Speech to text software Closed/Open Captions Transcript Files Layout of Content Thoughtful Organization
- 4. Changing Abilities Over a Lifetime Ontario: Approx. 1.85 million people report having a disability, representing 15.5% of the population. 70% of disabilities are ‘invisible’ Toronto: Apply 15.5% to Toronto’s population 2.79 million people = 432,450 people with disabilities https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ah/bgrd/backgroundfile-94585.pdf
- 5. Accessibility is a Legal Requirement Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 1 The AODA is based on the 2001 Ontarians with Disabilities Act and mandates a set of standards that public, private, and non-profit organizations must comply with. The aim of the act is to create a barrier-free Ontario by 2025 2 Private or non-profit organizations with more than 50 employees and all public sector organizations must make their website and web content compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA by January 2021. 3 https://www.aoda.ca/ https://www.ontario.ca/page/about-accessibility-laws https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/05a11 Failure to comply could result in fines of up to $100,000 for each day of violation
- 6. Fundamental of Accessibility Testing – WCAG 2.0 (POUR) https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/intro.html Perceivable • Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive. Operable • User interface components and navigation must be operable. Understandable • Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable. Robust • Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
- 7. WCAG 2.0 A, AA & AAA Success Criteria
- 9. Accessibility Tools Web • W3C Markup Validation • Achecker • JAWS, NVDA, ChromVox • Color Contrast Analyzer • Siteimprove Accessibility Checker • WAVE Toolbar • Bookmarklets • aXe Mobile • Screenreader – Voiceover, Talkback • Colour Contrast Analyzer • Invert Colors • Large Text • Accessibility Scanner- Android PDF • Adobe Acrobat XI Pro • PAC3
- 10. Helpful Resources Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ AODA - https://www.aoda.ca/ W3C Markup Validation - https://validator.w3.org/ Achecker - https://achecker.ca/checker/index.php Wave - https://wave.webaim.org/extension/ WAT - https://developer.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat/ Color Contrast Analyzer - https://developer.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrastanalyser/
- 11. Questions???
- 12. Thank You