With around 20% of the population managing a disability, designing software with Accessibility in mind is paramount. Perceive as the user does and Interact as the user does. Find out how the Eggplant Suite delivers a software development environment for you to address the Vision, Physical, Cognitive, Hearing needs of your audience.

1. AUTOMATING ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
JUNE 2019

2. ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
• Learning & Memory difficulties
• Slow reading speed
• Partial or full hearing loss
Cognitive
Hearing
• Complete, Partial, Colour
• Motion & visual effect sensitivity
• Unable to use standard devices
• Poor & slow motor skills
Vision
Physical

3. ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
Reach
• Approximately 20% of populations have some
disability issue that limits their use of a digital system
Regulatory/Legal
• Over 40 regulations across 23 countries
• Only 7 are related to web only
• Legal cases against Amazon & Target
• Learning & Memory difficulties
• Slow reading speed
• Partial or full hearing loss
Cognitive
Hearing
• Complete, Partial, Colour
• Motion & visual effect sensitivity
• Unable to use standard devices
• Poor & slow motor skills
Vision
Physical

4. ACCESSIBILITY TESTING TODAY
Automation Systems
• Platform & capability specific
• Web (many), Microsoft, Google (Android), Apple, etc.
• Limited support for physical devices (I/O) especially cross-
platform
Manual Testing
• Lots of manual intervention required still, expensive, repetitive &
slow
• Testing by expert UX teams requires them to emulate the
behavior and capability of a range of different types of
capabilities

5. EGGPLANT’S APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
Web, Mobile, Desktop
Custom Devices/IoT
Perceive as the user
does
Systems to test
Standard Keyboard &
Mouse
Custom Devices
Interact as the user
does
Uniform cross-
device assets
“Air
Gap”

6. EGGPLANT’S APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
Functional Testing
“Does the system API respond with the correct value?”
“Is that value presented on-screen?”
Not…
But …

7. EGGPLANT’S APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
Functional Testing
“Is that value presented on screen?”
“Is it simple to perceive and does it deliver a positive user
experience?”
Not…
But…
Usability Testing
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fonts Tiny
fonts
Brown on Purple

8. EGGPLANT’S APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
Functional Testing
“Is is simple to perceive and does it deliver a positive user
experience?”
“Can it be perceived and used by all users?”
Not…
But…
Accessibility TestingUsability Testing
Sufficient Contrast?
Photo

9. FUNCTIONAL  USABILITY  ACCESSIBILITY
Separate or blend all types of testing all based on a single “digital twin” of
the system to test

10. AUTOMATING ACCESSIBILITY TESTING
JUNE 2019