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Accessibility Testing by People with Disabilities

• An article of two halves, by a11y expert Becky Gibson. The first half gives guidance for performing your own a11y audit. It recommends WAVE as a starting point, followed by the Web Developer extension for validating document structure and numerous bookmarklets for additional automated tests. This is followed by manual keyboard and screen reader testing – checking for WCAG 2.1 AA violations (as opposed to WCAG 2.0, which was released in 2008 and has little guidance for mobile) – and finally, testing responsive design and zoom/magnification. The second half highlights Vision Aid for specialising in training blind individuals as testers, and argues the business case for this (‘native’ screen reader users will spot problems more quickly and catch some issues that other testers might not).

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