A WCAG 2.1 testing methodology which explains the what and how of manual accessibility testing

Описание: Accessibility testing is hard. How do you upskill team members to understand WCAG 2.1? How do you explain testing with screen readers? This is a challenge I faced with new team members and requests to standardise the testing.

I created a checklist which made accessibility testing consistent and removed different interpretations and inaccurate assumptions. When a team's accessibility maturity is low creating a checklist with this methodology results in a testing process anyone can understand.

0:00 Accessibility testing is hard
1:06 How long does an audit take?
1:17 Accessibility knowledge can't be retained by just one person
2:14 Peoples whims can affect accessibility testing results
2:47 What to test and how to test are two different things
4:43 Sufficient techniques provide hints for what to test
6:02 50 Success criteria become 96 individual tests
6:42 The whole process of accessibility testing could be sped up
7:18 How long does it take to run these tests?
7:56 WCAG by itself is not an effective measure of a sites accessibility
8:54 I don't like the often-quoted advice about screen reader testing
10:24 Add 9 additional tests for screen reader testing
10:34 Screen reader compatibility testing matrix
12:07 I needed to test an average path through the application
12:55 The testing pyramid and what to place emphasis on
13:35 This methodology doesn't factor in the nuances of accessibility testing
14:03 Summary
14:54 How to create your own accessibility testing checklist

Transcript https://bit.ly/38JsEAl
Instructions for creating your own checklist https://bit.ly/35twRpY

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