Accessibility testing is a subset of
usability testing where in the users under consideration are people
with all abilities and disabilities. The significance of this testing is
to verify both usability and accessibility.
Accessibility aims to cater people of different abilities such as:
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) describes the strategy for preliminary and conformance reviews of web sites. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) includes a list of software tools to assist with conformance evaluations. These tools range from specific issues such as colour blindness to tools that will perform automated spidering tools.
Web accessibility Testing Tools
Product Vendor URL
AccVerify HiSoftware http://www.hisoftware.com
Bobby Watchfire http://www.watchfire.com
WebXM Watchfire http://www.watchfire.com
Ramp Ascend Deque http://www.deque.com
InFocus SSB Technologies http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/
Role of Automated Tools in Acceptance Testing
The above said automated accessibility testing tools are very good at identifying pages and lines of code that need to be manually checked for accessibility.
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Accessibility aims to cater people of different abilities such as:
- Visual Impairments
- Physical Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Cognitive Impairment
- Learning Impairment
- Users with poor communications infrastructure
- Older people and new users, who are often computer illiterate
- Users using old system (NOT capable of running the latest software)
- Users, who are using NON-Standard Equipment
- Users, who are having restricted access
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) describes the strategy for preliminary and conformance reviews of web sites. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) includes a list of software tools to assist with conformance evaluations. These tools range from specific issues such as colour blindness to tools that will perform automated spidering tools.
Web accessibility Testing Tools
Product Vendor URL
AccVerify HiSoftware http://www.hisoftware.com
Bobby Watchfire http://www.watchfire.com
WebXM Watchfire http://www.watchfire.com
Ramp Ascend Deque http://www.deque.com
InFocus SSB Technologies http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/
Role of Automated Tools in Acceptance Testing
The above said automated accessibility testing tools are very good at identifying pages and lines of code that need to be manually checked for accessibility.
- check the syntax of the site's code
- Search for known patterns that humans have listed
- identify pages containing elements that may cause problems
- identify some actual accessibility problems
- identify some potential problems
