2-day Accessibility Testing primer
This 2 day primer on accessibility testing is targetted for quality assurance associates and managers. The training covers The “what” and “why” of Web accessibility and the tools and techniques used to test Web applications for adhearance to accessibility guidelines and standards.
At a glance
- Audience: QA engineers and managers, SDETs, accessibility specialists in training, developers who own quality, and product owners who define acceptance criteria.
- Format: two full days of live, instructor-led training delivered remotely over Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with a balance of presentation, demos, and hands-on lab time on real Web applications.
- Group size: capped at 15 participants per session to keep the hands-on exercises and code reviews interactive.
- Schedule options: two consecutive full days, or four half-day sessions over two weeks for teams that cannot block out full days.
- Language: English.
- Customization: lab exercises run against your own application(s) on request, with testing techniques tailored to your tech stack and test framework.
- Materials provided: slides, sample applications, hands-on lab exercises, a testing tools cheat sheet, a screen reader cheat sheet, and a WCAG-aligned test plan template participants can adapt to their own products.
- Accessibility of the training itself: live captions, accessible slides and exercise files, and reasonable accommodations available on request.
- Session recording: available on request for participants who cannot attend live.
- Technical requirements: a modern desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox), ability to install free accessibility testing browser extensions, and screen-sharing enabled on the video conferencing tool.
- Prerequisites: basic familiarity with Web testing and reading HTML; no prior accessibility experience required.
Learning objectives
By the end of this primer, participants will be able to:
- Explain what accessibility is, who is impacted, and the assistive technologies their users rely on.
- Map test cases to WCAG Principles, Guidelines, Success Criteria, and conformance levels (A, AA, AAA).
- Use automated accessibility testing tools and browser developer tools to triage issues quickly during development and release cycles.
- Perform manual accessibility testing for the issues automation cannot find — keyboard, focus, color and contrast, content order, and ARIA correctness.
- Smoke-test pages and components with a screen reader (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, or TalkBack) and write reproducible defects.
- Build an accessibility test plan and integrate accessibility checks into existing QA processes and CI pipelines.
What is Accessibility?
Explain what are some common types of disabilities. Describe various adaptive technologies that enable people with disabilities to access computers and the Internet. Finally, cover the different kinds of problems with rich Internet applications that hinder the use of such adaptive technologies.
WCAG 2.0 Standards
Explain the W3C accessibility guidelines covering Principles, Guidelines, Success Criteria, Sufficient and Advisory Techniques in an easy to follow course with plenty of examples
Accessibility Testing Tools
Cover several automated tools that help in the process of identifying accessibility problems. Hands-on exercises to identify and fix accessibility problems in existing Web applications.
Bring this training to your team
Contact us to schedule a session for your QA team, request that the lab exercises run against your own application, or ask about pairing this primer with our 3-day accessibility workshop for the developers your QA team works with.