What tools do you use to test website accessibility?
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One of the most powerful tools is to view the HTML source. Discount anything in the part of the page, and start with the Read through it word by word, ignoring any tags (words inside of < > brackets – except for the alt attribute of any images, if present) and focusing only on the words contained between the tags themselves. Read each word out loud as you encounter it. Does it make any sense to you when spoken aloud in the order presented?
That’s one layer – the audio. Next would be the partially-sighted or color-blind. That’s a bit more subjective. Is there enough contrast between foreground and background in all reading contexts? Is color ever used to convey information that is not available in any other manner (visible caption, title attribute)? I have an ancient Kodak photo previewing filter that strips most of the color out of the world when you look through it, and does a pretty decent job of showing you a monochrome view of the world. There is no color-blindness that I’m aware of that’s even remotely similar to this, but it does offer a generously degraded view that you can use to your benefit. (If it works there, it’s going to work most anywhere.) There are numerous online tools that will attempt to show you what any given page will look like to one or another of the major color deficiencies. Have a hunt.
Finally, you have the fully-sighted but physically disabled. If you enable the “tab to links” option in your browser, and try to navigate the entire page with the keyboard alone, how well does that go for you? Do the links appear in visual order, or do they hop around at random?
Walter
On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:13 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
What tools do you use to test website accessibility?
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