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What is Accessibility Testing?

Accessibility Testing is defined as a type of Software Testing performed to ensure that the application being tested is usable by people with disabilities like hearing, colour blindness, old age and other disadvantaged groups. It is a subset of Usability Testing. Accessibility aims to cater people of different abilities such as:

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  Visual Impairments

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  Physical Impairment

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  Hearing Impairment

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  Cognitive Impairment

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  Learning Impairment

People with disabilities use assistive technology which helps them in operating a software product. Examples of such software are:

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  Speech Recognition Software -  It will convert the spoken word to text , which serves as input to the computer.

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  Screen reader software -  Used to read out the text that is displayed on the screen.

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  Screen Magnification Software -  Used to enlarge the monitor and make reading easy for vision-impaired users.

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  Special keyboard - Made for the users for easy typing who have motor control difficulties.

A good web application should cater to all sets of people and NOT just limited to disabled people. These include:

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   Users with poor communications infrastructure

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   Older people and new users, who are often computer illiterate

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   Users using old system (NOT capable of running the latest software)

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   Users, who are using Non-Standard Equipment

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   Users, who are having restricted access

What are the Benefits of Accessibility Testing?

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  Increases the website usage and market share:

  By practicing the methods of web accessibility, it will be easier for the people with disabilities to access websites successfully and ensures an effective increase in the traffic

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  Enhances the brand image:

  The method of web accessibility not only eases in understanding the website, it also positively helps to increase the user’s approach and ensures a positive effect towards their website or application and helps to build brand

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  Makes the website accessible for the society:

   Performing the accessibility testing effectively helps the application to be equally accessible for people with disabilities and provides an equal number of opportunities. This way of accessing the web irrespective of the disabilities will ultimately make an active participating society.

What are the tools Used for Web Accessibility Testing?

• Automated Accessibility Testing Tool (AATT):

   This tool helps to provide accessibility API and custom web applications for HTML Code Sniffer. This tool helps in many functionalities such as in the creation of reports to evaluate reports, automatically validates the single web pages, etc. It is an open-source tool and supports various HTML and image formats.

• Web Accessibility Checker:

   This tool is popularly known for providing the easiest ways to perform accessibility checks over the web applications of ASP.NET. This tool is easily customizable and supports different international accessibility standards.

• Apple’s Accessibility API:

   This tool is specifically designed to test iOS apps. The usage of this tool will effectively help to improve the testing practice and benefits to improve user experience.

• Google’s Accessibility Test Framework for Android (GATF):

   This tool helps to detect a number of issues related to accessibility testing. This tool uses the already existing Android UI and integrates with frameworks and other tools. Making Accessibility Testing a regular part of the software testing process, and implementing the necessary checks early and often can help improve the overall experience of using an application or website. As the world is moving towards improving the customer experience, it is important that an application is tested for its accessibility. Good accessibility is directly proportional to good user experience. Although the methodologies to accessibility may vary, the trend towards IT consumption patterns that focus on users will continue to drive consumer and enterprise IT requirements for the predictable future. With the drift towards more accessibility, human-centric design and overall usability testing will become more important. QAIT Lab has very professional accessibility testers so try our testing service now and get your website or application or software high customer experience. So, contact us now and trust us we will provide you our best services.