Testing for Accessibility

Overview

Being able to develop accessible services, monitor and prove levels of compliance is a highly technical tasks. To manage this process, organisations need staff that understand the technical standards, how to meet them in development and how to test and monitor compliance.

This course is technically focused on understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA standard, and other compliance requirements and exemptions for the regulations. This course will also cover some Assistive Technology user testing techniques.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, delegates should have the knowledge and tools to:

• Be familiar with the basics of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

• Be able to identify accessibility issues on a website and link these back to specific guidance points

• Understand how to use online tools, OS settings and assistive technology to assist with accessibility testing

• Understand how to present testing outcomes to support evidencing of compliance for legislative purposes

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Agenda

Welcome and clarification of learning objectives

Session 1: Accessibility meaning and challenges intro

• Accessibility and inclusion terminology

• Why accessibility is important in the services we design

• Legal obligations

• How it can go wrong examples showcase

Morning break

Session 2: Getting to know WCAG and testing tips

• Introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

• Critical points of WCAG

• Common failures

• Tools and know-how to test for WCAG issues

  • Wave and other accessibility checkers

  • OS tools

  • Browser tools

Lunch

Session 3: Using AT and conducting testing

• Assistive Technology - the basics

  • Screen readers

  • High contrast modes

  • Zoom functionalities

  • Dictation

• Conducting testing exercise

  • Attendees will put into practice what they have learned over the morning and conduct real testing to identify accessibility issues on their own website

Afternoon break

Session 4: What to do after testing 

• Going over results of session 3 exercise

• How to report back to different groups

• Prioritising testing - which services to look at first