Testing Accessibility

About Testing Accessibility

Testing Accessibility is a self-paced workshop by Marcy Sutton that teaches web accessibility principles and practices across the design-to-deployment lifecycle. The curriculum covers building an organizational culture around accessibility, identifying issues in existing applications using industry-standard tools, and implementing accessible interactions with proper semantic elements and ARIA. It includes guidance on writing unit and integration tests for interactive controls, evaluating designs and mockups for accessibility issues, and developing manual and automated testing plans for key user flows.

The training is aimed at developers, designers, and other stakeholders on product teams who need to make their web applications usable by people with disabilities. It addresses both technical skills, such as testing tools and code-level implementation, and organizational skills, such as gaining stakeholder buy-in and collaborating across design and development teams.

Key features

• Self-paced workshop covering accessibility from design to deployment
• Teaches writing unit tests for interactive controls against accessibility guidelines
• Covers integration testing to simulate user flows through an application
• Guidance on semantic HTML, ARIA, and CSS methods for hiding elements
• Training on identifying accessibility issues in the design/mockup phase
• Covers industry-standard accessibility testing tools including screen reader testing

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