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Web Accessibility Testing

As the Internet becomes a central part of everyday life, it is imperative that your website provides equal access and usability to every user including those with disabilities. Our accessibility testing in Sydney, Australia ensures that your website is designed to cater to different disabilities affecting vision, auditory, mobility and cognition. Web accessibility is a practice of making websites accessible to all, particularly those with disabilities. As the Internet becomes a central part of Technology, it is imperative that Technology must be designed and developed in such a way that it provides equal access and usability to every member of the target audience.

It is becoming increasingly important for the government and educational institutions as they try to meet their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act and various policies and guidelines for online web publishing/hosting.
Accessibility testing seeks to cater to different disabilities affecting:

  • Vision e.g. visual blindness
  • Auditory e.g. deafness
  • Mobility e.g. spinal cord injuries
  • Cognition e.g. autism and dementia
Web Accessibility Testing
Web Accessibility Guidelines​

Web Accessibility Guidelines

“Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and 2.1” is a part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative. It has 3 levels along with a list of checkpoints:
  • Level A
  • Level AA
  • Level AAA

In summation, these guidelines were developed to promote equal access for people with disabilities and to ensure multimedia content is more accessible to a wider audience. Within accessibility testing, the areas that need to be tested are:

  • Text alternatives
  • Document structure/heading levels
  • CSS contrast/element styles
  • Forms and tables

There are various web accessibility test tool that can be used to aid accessibility testing:

  • WAVE
  • Achecker
  • JAWS – a screen reader
  • The Colour Contrast Analyser
  • EvalAccess
  • FAE (Functionality Accessibility Evaluator)
  • PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC)

Despite the availability of testing tools, it does not provide a definitive assessment. As a result, manual testing does need to be conducted.

Although accessibility testing is primarily applied to educational and governmental sectors, it should be employed in the private sector as it could improve the marketing and its profits.