Testing a web application ensures that each user can use the site. Web accessibility testing is a specialized test that ensures websites are effective in digital accessibility testing.
Additionally, guidelines for web accessibility testing are essential to follow. World Wide Web Consortium has set four rules for accessibility testing – perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Plus, companies can use three conformance levels – A, AA, & AAA – in their testing life cycle.
A well-designed accessibility testing focuses on balancing the needs of people with disabilities – helps match the needs to best techniques, automate the test case and use clear language for expression.
Let’s dive deep into the myths, and facts about testing web accessibility
1. MYTH: Website accessibility is expensive, plain, and boring
FACT: When you think of accessibility issues at the design stage, it reduces the cost. Accessibility does not mean that the site should contain only text. You can add more images and make them attractive and accessible for all.
2. MYTH: WCAG benefits people who have low vision or are blind
FACT: While ensuring that your site is accessible to all the people who are blind or have low vision, there’s no single access needed that dominates WCAG’s success criteria. Some disabilities may be permanent, while some temporary.
3. MYTH: Automated tools ensure complete site accessibility
FACT: No automated tool can help to solve total site accessibility. As such, these tools are cost-effective and can help to identify a broad range of issues across sites but keep in mind that 75% of WCAG site criteria – aren’t even tested.
4. MYTH: Developers are responsible for making a site accessible
FACT: Though developers play a central role, the responsibility of meeting WCAG success criteria rests on many people like – designers, content authors, UX specialists, and project managers. Making the sites accessible is a team effort.
5. MYTH: Using web content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is vital to achieving WCAG conformance
FACT: Using the WCAG techniques is not important for achieving WCAG conformance. However, they can help you get closer to the goal to an extent. What matters is your digital assets meet the required WCAG success criteria.
6. MYTH: Converting the inaccessible site to an accessible one is time-consuming
FACT: It’s important to prioritize things and work on basic needs so it’s not time-consuming.
Here are some Tools for Testing Web Accessibility
Conclusion
Web accessibility testing provides easy access to users with a disability and added challenges. It increases the audience reach and market share and improves efficiency and maintainability.
Moreover, you should follow different software testing trends. In short, by leveraging the emerging trends and implementing accessibility testing in the testing process, will help teams ensure the site’s content is accessible to all users without glitches.
Accessibility testing simplifies the process of navigation and how you can understand software and site needs. Moreover, it is for all users, and testing can be done for everyone.
Like other testing ways, you can do it manually or using different automation tools. However, it’s vital to check whether the guidelines are fulfilled or not and how user-friendly the process is.
<This is a guest post by Harikrishna Kundariya>
Author Bio:
Harikrishna Kundariya, a marketer, developer, IoT, ChatBot & Blockchain savvy,designer, co-founder,Director of eSparkBiz Technologies. His 12+ years of experience enables him to provide digital solutions to new start-ups based on IoT and SaaS applications.
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