Website Accessibility Testing

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Agenda

1What is Web site Accessibility & its

benefits

2Accessibility Tools &

why we select Firefox tool?

3Deliver Your

Presentation

1 What is Web site Accessibility &

its benefits

What is Web site Accessibility & its benefits"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of

disability is an essential aspect." Tim Berners-Lee (founder of WWW)

Accessibility is not…– Text-only pages– Separate accessible versions (except in multimedia)– Boring– Difficult

Accessibility is…– Accessibility is about building web pages that can be navigated and read by

everyone, regardless of disability, location, experience or technology.

• Up to 20% of Americans have some kind of disability.

• The major kinds that affect web use include:

Visual – blind, low vision, color-blindHearing – deafness Motor – inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited fine motor Cognitive – includes learning disabilities, unable to focus

• Accessible design benefits everyone!-Personal preference-Older technology-Slow connection speeds-Newer wireless technology

• Web accessibility is important not only because your content will reach a wider range of audience, but also because correcting web accessibility issues have secondary benefits such as cleaner and more semantic code

• Usability• Although often lumped together, accessibility is not the same as

usability • Accessibility is about ensuring that all users can access all it’s

services & content• Usability is ensuring that the process of accessing services &

content is as intuitive & efficient as possible

Accessibility Tools & why we select Firefox tool?

2

Tools(Plug-Ins and Extensions/online websites)– FAE– Juicy Studio– Adesigner– EvalAccess– Webanywhere– Web Accessibility Inspector– Vischeck– Accessibility color wheel– Colour contrast Analyst– TAW Web Accessibility Test– Web Accessibility toolbar– http://sixrevisions.com/web-standards/accessibility_testtools/Manual examination

• Filteration till we reach FAE tool only

Accessibility Tools & why we select Firefox tool?

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• The Firefox Accessibility Extension is a Firefox toolbar that allows you to inspect every aspect of a web page to determine its accessibility. A helpful toolbar feature is the Text Equivalents menu which allows you to generate lists of elements such as images and links to see whether each are standards-compliant

• It allows the user to quickly assess the accessibility of a given Web page, with functions for testing the accessibility of the page's individual elements

• The Toolbar uses the qualifiers Pass,Fail, Warning, and Check to describe the accessibility of each element. 

• Install Accessibility Extension from Firefox Add-ons Site• Go to the Firefox Add-ons site for Firefox Accessibility Extension• Click the "Install now" button on the add-ons website• url : http://accessibility.psu.edu/fae

Thank You