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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VoiceOver: App Testing Beyond the Visuals (WWDC 2018)

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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer conference (WWDC) 2018 you can learn how to “go beyond the visuals” to identify VoiceOver and functional accessibility issues , improving the experience for all users.

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What's New in Accessibility (WWDC 2017)

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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2017 some assistive technologies built into each iOS device are illustrated, providing examples on how to make them work better when they are properly supported by app developers in their products.

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Getting Started With Lighthouse

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In this support document available from the Google Developers portal, you can find instructions on how to get started using Lighthouse, a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”.

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Lighthouse

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Primarily developed at Google, Lighthouse is a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”. The available audits include a comprehensive, detailed accessibility report that can be generated for any web page.

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W3c Markup Validation Service

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This web service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows you to easily check wether your web page conforms to the specification of the language it is written into (e.

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TalkBack User Guide

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This is the official guide for TalkBack, the screen reader for Android developed by Google. In this guide you can find information that explains how to interact with any Android device using TalkBack, as it illustrates all the gestures and features it provides.

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TalkBack

Vincenzo Rubano
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Developed by Google, TalkBack is a screen reader that makes it possible for blind and visually impaired people to use devices running the Android operating system or any of its variations (such as Android TV): these include smart phones, tablets, and even smart TVs and a wide variety of different devices that serve an even wider variety of user’s needs.

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Complete Guide to Narrator

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This is the official documentation for Narrator, the screen reader developed by Microsoft that comes preinstalled on each PC running the Windows operating system. Other that documenting the latest improvements made to the screen reader, this manual describes its features, the supported keyboard shortcuts and provides guidance on how to use it to explore and manipulate user interfaces, web pages and other documents.

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Narrator

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Being developed since the early 2000’s, Narrator is a screen reader that comes preinstalled on each computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system. While being available for a long time, Narrator made huge steps forward that made it actually suitable for usage as a screen reader with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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Accerciser

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Quoting its documentation, Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI2 to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks.

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JAWS

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Advertised by its manufacturers as the “world’s most popular screen reader for windows”, Job Access with Speech (JAWS) is a commercial screen reader for Microsoft Windows that can provide feedback by using text to speech (TTS), Braille or a combination of both ones.

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Gnome Orca

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Quoting its official documentation, gnome-orca (often called just “orca”, but pay attention not to confuse it with other things with the same name) is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop environment in a linux or solaris operating system.

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