If you are attending my Practical hands-on accessibility testing tutorial/workshop, you will benefit from setting up some of the tools we’ll discuss ahead of the workshop. Note that there are no costs involved with installing and using the following tools:
Screen reader:
If you are on Windows:
- Download and install the latest stable version of NVDA
https://www.nvaccess.org/download/
If you are on OS X:
- VoiceOver is already built-in
If you are on Linux:
- Grab and install ORCA https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
Bookmarks:
- http://tenon.io For automated testing
- https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ For testing color contrast
- https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG)
Firefox add-ons:
- aXe accessibility testing (also available on Chrome)
- Zoom Page WE – To emulate text resize
- Web developer toolbar (if you aren’t already using other code sniffing tools)
- ColorZilla colour picker (if you don’t already have a colour picker you like)
Website to test
Think of a website that you’d like to assess during the tutorial. Note that we won’t have time to do a full assessment, but you should have a site or a page that you can play with during the exercises.
Questions?
If you have questions or need clarification about the upcoming tutorial/workshop, please feel free to contact me or to leave a comment here.