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The document discusses the importance of accessibility in web design, emphasizing that it benefits everyone and goes beyond mere compliance. It highlights common accessibility issues, offers practical testing strategies, and suggests resources for improving accessibility practices. The speaker, Adrian Stokes, encourages proactive advocacy and awareness for inclusivity in technology.
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- 1. What is wrongwith accessibility? Adrian ‘Ady’ Stokes @CricketRulz Corecom Consulting, Leeds 2019 linkedin.com/in/adystokes/ thebigtesttheory.com
- 2. Agenda • Me • Quiz •What you can do tomorrow Takeaways: Understanding that • Accessibility helps everyone • Is more than compliance (which is important on its own) • Grows your reputation • Earns and saves you money • Makes your customers/users like your application
- 3. Me – Adrian‘Ady’ Stokes • Auditor • Tester since 2004 • Researching accessibility since 2015 • Leeds Ministry of Testing Meetup organiser - @LeedsMoTMeetup • Power Hour on Accessibility – Club Ministry of Testing • International speaker on Accessibility
- 4. Why accessibility? • 98%of websites has an accessibility issue • Eight out of ten people were not born with their disability • Each and everyone of us can join that group at any time • It is the largest minority group on the planet • If you are not helping it get better you ARE discriminating and YOU ARE the problem!
- 5. Accessibility Quiz What’s wrongwith these in terms of accessibility? e.g. text, size, colour, language etc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Alt Text: Image shows 9 types of trees with a variety of colours from 18 shades of green to yellows, reds and amber. Grass is green and the sky is blue. The season is early summer and it is daylight. 9 10 11
- 6. Ady Stokes @CricketRulzthebigtesttheory.com Accessibility Quadrants
- 7. Ady Stokes @CricketRulzthebigtesttheory.com What you can do tomorrow – Tests Does your strategy include? • Keyboard only use • Screen reader use • Skip to main content link • Is alternative text present (where appropriate) • Contrast (number one WCAG issue)
- 8. Ady Stokes @CricketRulzthebigtesttheory.com What you can do tomorrow – Tools Must have; WAVE web and extension *(Chrome / Firefox) Nice to have; WebAxe Accessibility Developer Tools Readability Funkify extension
- 9. Ady Stokes @CricketRulzthebigtesttheory.com What you can do tomorrow – Advocacy Start a conversation Understand where you are starting your journey from Start building accessibility into your test strategy
- 10. Ady Stokes @CricketRulzthebigtesttheory.com Mobile Accessibility Common errors include; • Disable pinch to zoom • Unspoken messages (error, success, change) • Menus (inaccessible, second level function…) • Pop ups, pop overs, modal dialogues • Keyboards (wrong format, sort)
- 11. A July 2013survey (PDF) of adults with disabilities done by the Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center found that 91% of people with disabilities use a “wireless device such as a cell phone or tablet.” Among these users, screen reader usage is common, even on mobile devices. Mobile Accessibility
- 12. What is wrongwith accessibility? Adrian ‘Ady’ Stokes @CricketRulz Corecom, Leeds 2019 linkedin.com/in/adystokes/ thebigtesttheory.com slideshare.net/adystokes/presentations Thank you for listening
- 13. Resources • https://inclusivedesignprinciples.org/ • https://www.microsoft.com/design/inclusive/ •http://www.karlgroves.com/2013/09/05/the-6-simplest-web- accessibility-tests-anyone-can-do/ • https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-july-31 accessible personas • http://www.webaxe.org/ • https://wave.webaim.org/ testing tool, also as browser extensions • https://w3c.github.io/wcag21/guidelines/ web content accessibility guidelines • https://accessuse.eu/en/ dynamic web element descriptions Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.com
- 14. Resources • http://www.see-a-voice.org/marketing-ad/effective- communication/readability/ • https://readable.io/ •https://www.accessibilityoz.com/about/presentations/ (mobile website and apps testing videos) • http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html (big list of tools) • https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/06/how-accessibility-trees-inform- assistive-tech/ • http://pauljadam.com/demos.html (checklists and much more) • Many, many more resources available, you just have to go looking Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.com
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- #4 Brief introduction of who I am story of getting into test Tester for over a decade. Researching accessibility since 2015. MoT Power Hour. Spoke at international conferences on accessibility.
- #5 Brief introduction of who I am story of getting into test Tester for over a decade. Researching accessibility since 2015. MoT Power Hour. Spoke at international conferences on accessibility.
- #6 Need printed copies for attendees – 15 min to answer – 15 min discussion – 30 total
- #8 If they have or can install these get them to use Funkify to try different views, 5 minutes. Debrief, how did they find it?
- #9 If they have or can install these get them to use Funkify to try different views, 5 minutes. Debrief, how did they find it?
- #10 If they have or can install these get them to use Funkify to try different views, 5 minutes. Debrief, how did they find it?