If you are a web designer, content writer, developer, or tester, you need to know about accessibility! In this course, Testing Techniques for Web Accessibility, you'll learn how to test web sites for accessibility using simple techniques without the need for a screen reader. First, you'll explore how to test for the most common accessibility issues that impact the five main disability cohorts on the web. Next, you'll see how to test code in the browser using built-in inspection tools. Then, you'll discover tools you can build into your daily workflow as a designer or developer to prevent introducing new issues. Finally, you'll learn how to develop a high level testing plan by grouping tests into three main categories. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of testing techniques needed to ensure your websites are accessible to people with disabilities.
This course is for everyone, whether you are a designer, developer, or QA tester. If you play a part in producing anything for the web that is to be used by humans, then you should be testing your work as you go along to make sure you providing the most accessible experiences. This course will give you all the techniques I have learned and used over the years, all in about 90 minutes! For designers, I'll jump into Figma, and for developers I'll go over some automated testing tools you need to be using. But accessibility is not just about tools, so I'll show all of you, designers and developers, and especially QA testers, how to test in the browser with some manual checks and browser plugins.
About the Course
The course is about long, and is part of Pluralsight's Web Accessibility path, which is a collection of courses specific to learning accessibility on the web. You can start with a free 10-day trial, so sign up if you want to learn the Testing Techniques for Web Accessibility.
Course contents
- Basic Testing Techniques (52m)
- Introduction (2m 46s)
- 5 Types of Disabilities (31s)
- Physical Disabilities - Testing Keyboard Focus (8m 21s)
- Physical Disabilities - Testing Keyboard Interaction (6m 40s)
- Additional Input Modalities (5m 54s)
- Visual Disabilities (10m 45s)
- Visual Disabilities - Color (3m 6s)
- Visual Disabilities - Contrast (3m 42s)
- Video (3m 44s)
- Audio (1m 49s)
- Cognitive Disabilities (4m 43s)
- Testing Code in the Browser (26m)
- Browser Tools (2m 19s)
- Document Attributes (2m 2s)
- Landmarks (2m 3s)
- Headings (3m 15s)
- Buttons and Links (3m 52s)
- Images (4m 53s)
- Lists (1m 29s)
- Tables (1m 24s)
- Forms (4m 43s)
- Testing Tools for Everyone (36m)
- Testing Tools for Everyone (2m 52s)
- Tools for Developers - Linting (7m 37s)
- Tools for Developers - Unit Testing (3m 31s)
- Tools for Developers - Integration/End-to-end Testing (2m 35s)
- Tools for Designers - Stark (7m 32s)
- Tools for Designers - axe for Designers (2m 30s)
- Browser Plugins for Everyone - WAVE (6m 32s)
- Browser Plugins for Everyone - Accessibility Insights (3m 32s)
- Testing Plan (12m)
- Testing Plan (5m 42s)
- Prioritizing Accessibility Work (5m 51s)
- Next Steps (1m 24s)
Testimonials
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I'm impressed by the course's quality. It made understanding WCAGs easy with its practical approach. I gained valuable theory and practical skills I can apply right away. Highly recommended - clear, concise, and engaging. Thank you!