Installing and using automated and manual accessibility testing tools is a great way for developers and QA testers to learn accessibility without jumping straight into the complexities of learning manual screen reader testing.Īccessibility testing tools will help you learn web accessibility because most of them include some help documentation for the errors or do a good job of obviously pointing out errors that you will learn to avoid while coding. Learning Accessibility through Testing Tools
If you’re testing a responsive designed website’s desktop and mobile views then you can still use the same desktop Accessibility testing tools to test an RWD site. We’ll talk about what a11y testing tools work on desktop web browsers and what testing tools you can use directly from a mobile device. We’ll discuss how automated, page-by-page accessibility testing tools fit into your manual testing process and how using automated tools in early development stages can save time for QA testers to avoid documenting very basic accessibility problems. It’s important to remember that automated accessibility testing tools can never replace manual screen reader and keyboard-only testing. I will point out the pros and cons of each testing tool, describe the best features of each tool, and show what accessibility problems each tool is good at identifying. We’ll cover five accessibility testing tools that can be installed either as browser extensions or JavaScript bookmarklets.
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This post will demonstrate how to use automated and manual accessibility testing tools on desktop and mobile websites.
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