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Recommendations For Accessibility Testing In 2021

To see what this new year with us, let's look at certain recommendations that can be implemented in testing accessibility: -

1. Accessibility is no longer a reflection

The traditional process of bringing products to life is always regarded as an accessibility as a reflection. Existing ideas - after a product is built and released, the aspect of accessibility appears in it.


But the complexity involved with the old process of this age is a lot - from refining all codes to improve the pain point of accessibility to release a product that has not taken into account more than 15% of the world's population that lives with a kind of disability, in the first position.


The ongoing trend and ideally must be adopted as a recommendation is to combine accessibility early. This basically implies that accessibility is considered a parallel effort during the development and process of core engineering.


Accessibility testing Thus, it will be a comprehensive effort to identify and eliminate problems that will interfere with different end users.


The initial weaving accessibility will also help seamlessly align with the Act and Guidelines for Accessibility, such as Section 508, America with ACT disability (exist) and WCAG.


Thus, instead of considering accessibility as a reflection, the left shift must be a way to progress. It must be deliberately paid for and included as the same effort from the beginning to ensure minimal remediation in the end.


If this is done from the design stage, a product with an inclusive design can do a miracle to advance accessibility from Adam.


2. The emergence of automation in accessibility

Because automation has set its foothold in the digital space, significance and its needs in the accessibility domain grew simultaneously. What could not imagine a few years ago, to combine the feel of AI and ML in testing accessibility, come true today.

Organizations have begun to utilize their automation capabilities in accessibility to arrive at faster and economic results. By using a test automation tool in testing accessibility, such as axes or waves, comprehensive test coverage becomes helpful in identifying pain points easily and early.


After saying that, the human-centric approach was as significant. Taking into account the perspective of the end user becomes very important to provide healthy products. Automation only does so much in ensuring faster results.


However, when it comes to logical coherence, real user input adds great value to the product. For example, alt text can be checked through automation tools but to provide the right meaning, real users play a key role.


Thus, through a paired testing approach - collaborative testing efforts from a SME and different users - can do wonders on realistic results. This can be executed in parallel with automatic testing efforts too.


3. Accessibility as part of testing cellular applications

Because cellular applications have become an irreplaceable aspect of our lives, the need to make this can be accessed by one and everything has become a requirement for hours.


For different users, this is a drastic change to fully rely on cellular applications for their daily activities, both shopping, conference calls, etc. Entering accessibility as part of testing cellular applications has become a growing trend and needs to be added to help users navigate the application smoothly.


With a dictated approach using an automation testing tool and with the help of real user testing the cellular application, each accessibility congestion can be easily identified and eliminated - especially with the left shift approach to be done early.


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