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Testing
Accessibility testing is the process of evaluating a website’s accessibility to ensure that it is usable by people with disabilities. This involves testing the website using various automatic and manual testing to identify any issues that may prevent people from using the the website effectively. Conducting regular testing is crucial in ensuring that websites meet accessibility standards.
31 Resources: People (2); Podcasts (0); Organisations (3); Tools (9) Articles (17)
People

Kyran
O’Mahoney
Founder and Director of IA Labs, Kyran’s role as CTO with the National Council for the Blind of Ireland puts him in the unique position to have hands on experience in the field of digital accessibility.

Rachele
DiTulliio
Accessibility Engineer who has a blog that discusses many aspects of digital accessibility and testing.
Podcasts
Organisations
Fable
Enterprises use Fable Engage to connect to people with disabilities for user research and accessibility testing.
InterAccess
An Irish accessibility consultancy that offers services in accessibility training, usability testing involving people with disabilities, audits, accessibility design reviews and conformance.
Tools
44x44 Pixel Cursor
A bookmarklet to make it easier to test WCAG’s Target Size and proposed Pointer Target Spacing requirements.
Axe DevTools
The world's leading digital accessibility toolkit
Chartability
Chartability is a set of testable questions for ensuring that data visualisations, systems, and interfaces are accessible. Chartability is organised into principles with testable criteria and focused on creating an outcome that is an inclusive data experience for people with disabilities.
CMYK Colour Contrast Calculator
A tool for testing accessible colour combinations in print. This is useful for exhibition design.
Silktide Accessibility Checker
Test your website against over 200 website accessibility checks with Silktide’s easy to understand accessibility checker.
This is WCAG
Build and test against WCAG consistently. Understand each success criterion's meaning and how to be accessible.
WebAIM: Link Contrast Checker
Use this tool to check that there is enough contrast between link text, regular text, and the background colour.
Who can use this colour combination?
A tool that brings attention and understanding to how colour contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.
Articles
6 Quick tests you can do to test your forms for accessibility
Testing a form for accessibility can be boiled down to 6 high level goals.
A Guide To Accessible Form Validation
In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.
Best practices for a chatbot
Some of Orange’s best practices for designing and developing a chatbot, it includes examples.
Chatbot Accessibility Playbook
Helpful guide on ways to build an accessible chatbot.
Combat Accessibility Decay: How to Maintain Ongoing Accessibility
An article about the causes of accessibility decay on websites and methods to stop it from happening
Conducting Mobile Accessibility Research with Screen-Reader Users
Conducting research with users who are blind or have low vision requires a little extra planning and adaptation compared to typical tests, but it is critical for truly improving the accessibility of designs.
Creating an Inclusive eCommerce Experience: Best Practices
Discover best practices for creating an inclusive eCommerce experience. Learn how to optimise your website for accessibility and expand your reach.
Getting started with TalkBack on Android
Learn how to use the default screen reader included on Google touchscreen devices running Android operating system.
How to build accessible main navigation?
This article contains a guide to building an accessible main navigation of a website in 5 steps. The key takeaways of this guide are HTML semantics, WAI-ARIA, CSS, and JS for accessibility.
How to check and document design accessibility in your mockups
Using Figma plugins and annotation kits.
How to Integrate Accessibility into UX Research
Learn how to integrate accessibility into your UX research process. Learn best practices for inclusive user personas, usability testing, and more.
Inaccessible PDFs? How to know when to use HTML webpages instead of PDFs
An article that goes through why to choose HTML webpages over PDFs, when to use a PDF and some scenarios.
Making chatbots accessible
Chatbots can be one of the most frustrating and inaccessible parts of a website. They can also create a quick and wonderful customer experience. It’s all about how you make them…
Usability Testing With Older Adults
When conducting usability testing with older adults, understand your participants’ needs and accommodate them accordingly.
Visually Accessible Data Visualisation
Designing data visualisation to be more visually accessible using patterns, shapes, and high contrast colours
Your eight-step PDF accessibility checklist
An eight-step checklist that you can use to help ensure your PDFs are fully accessible.