Test Automation for Accessibility
Course By :- Marie Drake
Accessibility == A11y
The practice of making a product that is usable
by everyone, with or without disabilities.
Summary
Accessibility is focused more on people with
disabilities
The Difference in Usability & Accessibility
4 principles Usability focuses on all aspects
The Accessibility Guidelines Summary
How to achieve this specific principle will have more users
Each has set of guidelines for
Contain a set of testable success criteria with Overview: The law and regulation around web accessibility is still a blurred area.
Conformance Level
With
In the UK,13.9 million Accessibility We help these people to be
people with some form aspects included and use products
Each of the guidelines under 2.0 and 2.1 have Product designed, of disability considerations without any issues.
a success criteria What is Accessibility? developed, and tested with
accessibility aspects The lecture room was not designed to be
Defined through the three conformance levels Intro accessible
Sarah, who studies at the University of Hull
that businesses or companies should conform
can't attend her lecture properly because
to Cannot take notes because she
doesn't have a table.
Basic conformance
Level A Website
25 criteria from the accessibility guidelines Must achieve A blind man sued Domino's because he couldn'
Domino's Accessibility case t order your pizza using their Mobile App
Mid range WCAG 2.1 Conformance Levels
25 criteria from level A
Level AA Introduction to Web Screen Reader
13 new criteria
Need to achieve
Accessibility Loss of users
Accessibility issues can cost
Loss of money to the business
Highest conformance level,
Level A Level AAA
The W3C or World Wide
Given by Web Consortium
Level AA Need to achieve Web Content
Accessibility
Guidelines A list of guidelines and
Another 23 criteria
recommendations on how
to make your website more
Provides accessible
Version 2.1 was introduced due to the rise of
mobile devices and tablets Published in December 2008
People with low vision Users with difficulties with
The
Cover a wider array of disabilities Web Content Accessibility one of their senses
information
Cognitive and learning disabilities Guidelines 2.1 presented to
Perceivable users Reliant on
Checks for our website is accessible in both using an Uses a Screen
portrait or landscape mode assistive reader to access
technology a website
Give the option to turn it off Make sure about Version 2.0
Your users must be able to operate
your website by using different
The ability to zoom text easily
Operable means
Clear
Web Content Accessibility Your users can instruction
Guidelines 2.0 understand the should be
information presented
presented to
A set of rules them when using
Understandable your website Error
messages to
understand
mistakes
Mindmap Summary By Your website
must be used by
your users when
Pallavi Hatole they use third-
party assistive
technologies,
even if the Adhering Correct
technology to HTML
Robust advances standards structure
Published in June 2018
It's an extension to version 2.0
Version 2.1
Mobile Accessibility
A set of rules People with low vision
Cognitive & Learning Abilities
