In this 2-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to administer automated checks, understand the test results, and conduct manual accessibility tests to evaluate whether a site is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. By the end of the project, you will have generated an accessibility report by running industry-leading automated tests and basic manual tests.
Testing for Web Accessibility With Accessibility Insights
Taught in English
Instructor: Dylan Sheffer
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What you'll learn
Understand web accessibility fundamentals and how accessibility is assessed
Administer automated checks and understand the test results
Conduct manual tests to evaluate a site's compliance against the WCAG AA specification
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Learn step-by-step
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Automated Testing - Running automated accessibility tests and interpreting its results.
Testing for Perceivability - Manual testing of how a person using assistive technology would perceive the web page.
Testing for Operability - Manual testing to evaluate whether a person using assistive technology could operate the web page.
Testing for Understandability - Manual testing to evaluate how understandable the web page's interface and content is.
Testing for Robustness - Testing the page in a variety of circumstances common to users with disabilities.
Exporting the Results - Annotating accessibility issues and exporting the results for further remediation.
Recommended experience
Basic HTML and CSS experience would be useful.
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