Testing

In this section you can find various resources to help you test and evaluate the accessibility of your web pages and applications, assessing their conformance to web accessibility standards and guidelines.

While automated accessibility testing is technically possible (and actually useful!), unfortunately it is not enough. You need to perform manual accessibility testing in order to ensure that your product is accessible!

Resources

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React and Accessibility Fundamentals

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In this video from Deque Systems, you can get an overview on how to make a web application developed using React (a very popular JavaScript framework) accessible.

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Supporting VoiceOver in Your App

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In this guide made available by Apple, you can learn all you need to know to get started adding support for VoiceOver (Apple’s built-in screen reader) to your iOS app.

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Accessibility Principles

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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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Earl Overview

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Provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), this informative document contains an introduction to the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL).

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HTML_CodeSniffer

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HTML_CodeSniffer is a JavaScript library designed to be “injected” within any web page to “Check that your HTML code conforms to your coding standard”. Once executed, it checks the source code of a web page looking for “violations” of a given coding standard.

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview

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This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Overview

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This guide from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the [Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules]({{z ref “act-rules.md” >}}), a set of practical rules that can be used to test the accessibility of a website or application.

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Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

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There is an abundance of web accessibility evaluation tools out there. They differ in features, how they work, the way in which they show evaluation results, type of issues identified, and many other aspects.

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