The document emphasizes the importance of accessibility for applications, highlighting that over 1 billion people globally have disabilities that affect their interaction with technology. It outlines various types of disabilities, accessibility guidelines, testing strategies, and tools to ensure universal access and compliance with standards like WCAG 2.0. The concluding message stresses the need for accessibility awareness, implementation, and user-focused engineering plans to improve end-user experiences.

1. Accessibility

2. What is Accessibility?
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Ensuring a universally available and accessible application, including those who suffer from various
disabilities.
What do the current statistics say?
● More than 1 billion people globally have some form of disability
● This corresponds to about 15% of the world's population
● Between 110-190 million people have very significant difficulties in functioning
● In the US, 12.6% of the population suffers from some kind of disability
Joint report by World Health Organization and the World Bank,
https://disabilitycompendium.org/sites/default/files/user-uploads/2016_AnnualReport.p
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3. Types of Disabilities
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● Visual impairment
● Lack of motor skills
● Hearing impairment
● Cognitive disability

4. Types of Disabilities
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● Understand and Implement Accessibility Guidelines and Standards
- WCAG 2.0, Section 508
● Understand Accessibility from Usage Standpoint
- Usability experts, end-user connect program
● Manual and Automated Accessibility Quality Checks
- Right balance, test tools (W3C Link Checker, color contrast analyser tools, etc.), use
templates-VPAT
● Consider collaboration with third-party testing firms which specialize in accessibility

5. Mobile Focus
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❖ Functionality
❖ Mobile context
❖ Different devices
❖ Data entry methods
❖ Multimodality

6. Different Interaction Styles
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7. Accessibility Evaluation
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8. Content – Treasure of Knowledge
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● Re-size text
● Good color contrast
● Complete coverage
● Proper alt-text
● Minimal flash content

9. Key Questions from Usability/Accessibility Perspective
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● Who are your users?
● What are their tasks?
● What environment are they in?
● What types of devices do they use?
● What is your user’s level of tech-savviness?
● Is a lot of reading involved?
● Is data entry involved?

10. It All Starts with the User
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Who is the user?
- Knowledge, beliefs, skills, background
- Interests and preferences
- Goals, plans, tasks, needs
- Demography, ability, professions

11. Compliance Standard- WCAG 2.0 Levels of Compliance
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12. Quality - Possible Testing Strategies
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● Start accessibility testing early
● Perform with an iterative approach
● Use in conjunction with manual, functional, automation and
performance testing
● Understand guidelines and use accessibility testing checklists
● Leverage tools – JAWS, NVDA, Color Contrast Analyzer,
VoiceOver/Talkback

13. Quality - Paired Testing
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14. Quality - Test Approach
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15. Accessibility Testing Process at QA InfoTech
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16. Tools Used
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● Screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, Talkback, VoiceOver, Window Eyes)
● Screen Magnifiers – ZoomText
● Keyboard-Only Testing
● Color Contrast Analyzer
● Browser Zoom upto 200%
● High Contrast Settings
● Accessibility Inspector on iOS
● Accessibilitometer
● Automated Tools (aXe, WAVE)
Our Selenium framework based on aXe and HTML codesniffer works similarly, enabling
functional engineers take on basic accessibility checks.

17. Handy Checklist
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Meaningful Alt Text : Appropriate, equivalent alternative text for all images
Keyboard Accessible : Page functionality accessible via keyboard
Focus Order : Navigation order of links, form elements, logically correct
Use of Color : Not the only mode to communicate
Bypass Blocks : Direct access to web page’s primary content
Semantic Markup : Heading Structure, List , Block Quote, etc

18. In Conclusion
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● Accessibility awareness - inevitable at all levels
● Implementation feasible today, thanks to awareness, access to engineers and tools
● Map your users to create an engineering plan
● Inject Accessibility Quality – ideally a paired team approach
● Coverage to focus on compliance and end user experience

19. Thank You
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