How to Advocate for Accessibility Testing and Implementing It on Your Teams

As testers, we are always empathizing with our users, to simulate their actions or their point of view, so we can test the site from their perspective. How many of you have considered testing from the point of view of someone with a disability? Does your team account for accessibility? 

It’s ok if your answers to the questions above are “Oh no, I haven’t” or “Oh wow, I didn’t think about that”.

Don’t worry, that is why I am here to help everyone get in the mindset of testing for accessibility as well. And most importantly, advocating for it on your teams, by sharing the benefits.

I will share from my personal experience, how I got my team to start thinking about accessibility. So we’ve now advocated for accessibility on our teams, you may be wondering “But how do I test for accessibility?”. This is usually the question that follows after advocating for accessibility on your teams. 

This is where I’ll teach you how to create accessibility personas. I will also share my accessibility testing checklists; which outlines the key areas to test for. I will even bring it a step further to outline ways in which you can also include accessibility testing in your automation suites.

If you’ve never considered accessibility before or you didn’t know the first step for testing accessibility, you’ll learn how to do it from this talk. I aim to inspire and advocate for more inclusive applications.