Adrian (Ady) Stokes addresses 'What is wrong with accessibility?' plus three testing challenges are addressed by a group of Test Managers.

1. Welcome
#TestBoss
@CorecomIT
www.corecomconsulting.co.uk

2. Schedule for this evening
● 6.00pm - Networking
● 6.30pm - Welcome and Introduction: George Lund and Sam Finnegan,
Software Testing Recruitment Consultants, Corecom Consulting
● 6.40pm – Adrian ‘Ady’ Stokes, Creator of the Periodic Table of Testing,
‘What is wrong with accessibility?’
● 7.15pm - Buffet and Refreshments
● 7.45pm - Group Discussions
● 8.30pm - Event close: Refreshments and Networking
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3. What is wrong with
accessibility?
Adrian ‘Ady’ Stokes
@CricketRulz
Corecom Consulting, Leeds 2019
linkedin.com/in/adystokes/
thebigtesttheory.com

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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!

7. Accessibility Quiz
What’s wrong with these in terms of accessibility?
e.g. text, size, colour, language etc.
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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.
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8. Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.com
Accessibility Quadrants

9. Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.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)

10. Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.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

11. Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.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

12. Ady Stokes @CricketRulz thebigtesttheory.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)

13. A July 2013 survey (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

14. What is wrong with
accessibility?
Adrian ‘Ady’ Stokes
@CricketRulz
Corecom, Leeds 2019
linkedin.com/in/adystokes/
thebigtesttheory.com
slideshare.net/adystokes/presentations
Thank you for listening

15. 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

16. 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

17. Buffet and Refreshments
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18. Group Discussions
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22. Thank you
#TestBoss
@CorecomIT
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