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Description

You have achieved and celebrated releasing a fast and responsive website, but…is it accessible to everyone? Between legal requirements and doing right by all of your application’s users, QA teams need to move beyond functional correctness and focus on non-functional requirements such as accessibility. In this workshop, we will learn the importance of accessibility testing, the difference between manual and automated tests, and how to tackle and prioritize accessibility issues. You’ll come away with an understanding of how to test and resolve accessibility issues in your own application.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand why accessibility testing is critical to quality
• How to test your application manually and with automation
• Strategies to prioritize accessibility issues and integrate testing into your pipeline

Prerequisites

Please bring a website or URL you would like to test during the session!

Speaker

Eva Ferreira

Front-end engineer

Evangelina Ferreira is a Front-end developer and teacher. She currently works as a UI Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than five years. Throughout her career Evangelina has been deeply involved in the Argentinian web community. She enjoys giving workshops and talks and since 2015 she has been organizing CSSConf Argentina, an international non-profit event that brings experts from all around the globe to speak about web technologies. In her spare time she loves reading W3C drafts as much as Harry Potter, creating animations and playing with her cats.