Site Accessibility Testing Methods and Best Practices

2 points by the_unknown 5 years ago | 1 comment

I've done my best to make my site accessible using the WCAG guidelines and some validation tools such as axe, achecker.ca but I feel like I'm lost in a sea of thousands of 'suggestions' but few hard and fast rules to follow to guarantee the widest reach possible.

I don't really know anybody using accessible browsers so it is hard to get real-world knowledge. What is the most popular browesr at this point - is it a full on browser or just a plugin for FireFox (or Chrome). Do they react different between Windows and Mac?

Are there any mobile accessibility options? What about for iPads/tablets?

darekkay 5 years ago |

Visually impaired people are using a combination of regular browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE11) and screen readers (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver) [1]. There are differences in the output, but you can pretty much ignore them for the high level knowledge that you are looking for.

You could check some articles [2], talks [3] or courses [4] to get the basic understanding of accessible development.

[1] https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/#browsercomb...

[2] https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y/blob/master/topic...

[3] https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y/blob/master/topic...

[4] https://github.com/brunopulis/awesome-a11y/blob/master/topic...