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The Three Developers and the Insightful User Tester

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Scott O’Hara

In today’s article, Scott O’Hara tells the classic tale of developers not aware of accessibility and how user testing with a person with disabilities highlights the classic errors made, and the revelations experienced just before project launch.

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Delayed user input because the browser is struggling to download and execute a ton of scripts, styles and resources doesn’t just pose an annoyance: users could give up on using your website entirely and never come back!

— Marcy Sutton

Development

  • Accessibility – Make your icons awesome for all of your users
  • Accessibility APIs: A Key To Web Accessibility
  • Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1
  • Accessible SVG Test Page
  • Accessible SVGs
  • Ember Slack #topic-a11y channel
  • How to use -ms-high-contrast
  • HTML5 Accessibility
  • Implementation status for HTML5 element/attribute accessibility mappings
  • Inline Styles, User Style Sheets and Accessibility
  • Making SVG Accessible
  • Paul J. Adam A11Y Resources
  • Using ARIA

Testing

  • a11yTools Extension for Safari macOS
  • ARIA Landmarks Example
  • axe-core
  • Get started with Narrator Screen Reader
  • JAWS (Job Access With Speech) Screen Reader
  • Keyboard-Only Testing
  • Listening to the web, part three: working with screen readers
  • TPG Mobile Accessibility Testing for Android and iOS (PDF, 2.6MB)
  • VoiceOver Getting Started Guide
  • WAVE Accessibility Extension – Firefox
  • WAVE Evaluation Tool for Chrome
  • Windows High Contrast Mode

Tools

  • Accessibility Viewer (aViewer)
  • aXe Browser Extension for Chrome
  • aXe Browser Extension for Firefox
  • Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA)
  • Google Lighthouse
  • HTML_CodeSniffer
  • JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing
  • Nu Html Checker
  • NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) Screen Reader
  • tota11y
  • Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT)
  • WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
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