Understanding Your Accessibility Testing Goals

Automated website accessibility testing services can be a really helpful. It usually reveals various problems which would take a human tester several times longer to uncover. 

It's a bit like using a spell/grammar checker. But, just as a human editor is necessary for any serious writing, hands-on testing required in any serious usability testing effort for the handicapped. Here are the steps we take beyond automated accessibility tests.

Consultation - Learning Your Accessibility Goals 

What are your goals for conducting accessibility testing? What, specifically, do you hope to achieve? Goals may range from just ensuring that the basics are covered to wanting to win awards for available site design. We help you define your expectations and turn them into our deliverables.

Planning and Scripting 

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

Functional Testing

Functional testing is usually managed by the web development firm or department and is usually unseen to the customer. It includes such things as verifying that links lead where they should and that forms and databases work together accurately. It asks the question, "Does it work right?"

HTML and CSS Validation Testing

The code that makes your website work should be written using formal grammar. It may function without understanding, so-called, valid code standards but it will be used by search engines and other automated systems as second class at best. 

Automated Accessibility Testing

It makes use of specific software to examine your site's code to see if certain parts to help handicapped people use the web are present. It is very effective at finding flaws and omissions at this level.

The real assessment of the documents was never completely accomplished and managed. The illusion that Joe was doing a complete job was questioned by a number of people working with the accessibility departments. 

But, it was a little tough to make people realize the drawbacks of these testing experiments that were conducted and implemented. 

It was such an obvious fact that a person who needs assistance for his navigation of web pages can tell everyone who have sound senses about the bugs that the web page might have, though they forgot that they have a better command over their senses.

Accessibility assessment is a big task and you are responsible for what people hear and interpret. This translation from the visual content to the audible mode has to be careful, as it would include educational organizations that are using these technologies available to support their unique users. Thus, Accessibility Testing services can never be perfect and at this point time is never 100 percent.