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Website Accessibility Testing - Beyond Automation

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Website Accessibility Testing - Beyond Automation

Automated website accessibility testing with the help of Blue Atlas Marketing can be a very useful process. It often reveals many issues which would take a human tester many times longer to uncover. It's a bit like using a spell/grammar checker on a long article. But, just as a human editor is essential in any serious writing, hands-on testing is essential in any serious usability testing effort for the handicapped. Below are the steps we take beyond automated accessibility tests.

 

Planning and Scripting

 

To reach your goals you need a plan. This includes both high-level planning like which screen readers do you want used, how many test experts do you want to run the scripts, and should all pages be tested or just some representative ones? It also includes specific sets of steps taken to test conduct tests, known as test scripts.

 

Recruiting

 

We will test your web presence with visually impaired specialists who are familiar with both good and bad web design from their own daily web use. They are also experts at using screen reader technologies. If your test plan calls for it we will also recruit visually impaired target audience testers - people who represent your potential clients. These will not be web experts - they will be ordinary web users.

 

Reporting

 

We provide reporting on each phase of the project. There is a Goals report that the client signs off on before moving on to the Planning phase. The Test Plan and any Scripts are presented for sign-off prior to actual testing. There can, on client request, be a Recruiting report. And of course, the final reports in which we detail the objective results of testing, the subjective comments of the testers, and any additional insights from the final meeting. Both positive and negative issues are reported on. And there is practical advice on how to improve any negative issues.

 

Re-Testing and Reporting

 

Following any work on the website to resolve accessibility issues reported on, we can retest the website. This is a recommended but optional phase and can be a re-running of all previous tests and scripts or simply a verification test to see that recommendations were implemented successfully. Reporting on this phase depends on the scope of testing.

 

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