Quick Accessibility Testing

 by Nicole Ferraro

A recent project of mine required me to do a quick review of the accessibility level of a site. Nothing serious, just to show what was possible to test and where the site scored right now. I managed to assemble a small list of tools that I believe did a rather good job. This article is a list of those tools, and some tips on how to use them.

First off, to do a real accessibility test, you need real people, with real tasks to accomplish. These are not tools to replace people. Instead, they can give you a quick rundown on where you stand, and find things you’ve missed. I like to compare it with HTML validation: Validation is a great way to find your errors, but just because you validate does not mean you have good code.

Oh, by the way, I limited this to only free tools. Thought you’d like that. Also, for your enjoyment, I’ve split this article into three parts :

• Automatic testing
• Semi-automatic testing
• Manual testing

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Web Testing 

In the fast changing and highly competitive web-based business environment, it is critical for organizations to test their web sites and web applications using an automated testing tool. Automated web testing should ensure that the web applications/web sites/web services usual functionality works correctly, provides the ability to reuse and extend the tests across multiple browsers/platforms/ languages/databases/servers and ensure that all the users accessing the web applications get results in an acceptable time.

Ultimately, web testing large or small Web applications/Web Sites requires some kind of expertise. Today, most of the organizations contact dedicated QA professionals, testing labs and testing consultants to get this done. Also, the need of the day is to do remote web testing instead of traveling to a particular site for teams who are geographically distributed. This helps to cut costs, minimize the effort required to test web applications/web sites, increase software quality, reduce time-to-market and use reusable test cases.

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