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What is Accessibility Testing?

Accessibility Testing is an approach to measuring a product's ability to be easily customized or modified for the benefit of users with disabilities. Users should be able to change input and output features, keyboard features, screen colors, sounds, and even the ability to zoom in on text and images.

Our goal at nResult is to help you ensure that people with disabilities can access and use your product as effectively as people without disabilities.

What is the purpose of Accessibility Testing?

The purpose of accessibility testing is to pinpoint problems within web sites and products, which may otherwise prevent users with disabilities from accessing the information they are searching for.

Accessibility Testing can help you determine the following:

• Compliance - How your product complies with legal requirements regarding accessibility
• Effectiveness - How fast users with disabilities can use your product to accomplish basic and complex tasks
• Usefulness - The likelihood that users with disabilities will want to use your product again because it meets their needs and expectations
• Satisfaction - How appealing your product is to users with disabilities

Why should your company have Accessibility Testing added to your QA efforts?

Accessibility testing your products is the right thing to do. By identifying and resolving accessibility issues you make your products available to millions of new users. Additionally, if you are doing business with a U.S. government agency, it is a requirement.

On December 21, 2000 The Access Board, a US government agency, issued guidelines for accessibility of information technology under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. These guidelines require that Federal departments and agencies create web sites and other information technology that is accessible to people with disabilities, such as the blind and the mobility-impaired. This also affects agencies that contract with the Federal government as they are required to follow section 508 rules.

Accessible sites offer significant advantages that go beyond access. For example, those with "text-only" options provide a faster downloading alternative and can facilitate transmission of web-based data to cell phones and personal digital assistants.

Accessibility Testing will help you accomplish the following:

• Fulfills legal obligations
• Make your product available to millions of people who have a disability
• Increase revenue from increased Web site traffic and product purchases
• Increase customer satisfaction

What will Accessibility Testing uncover in my products?

• Legal issues
• Effectiveness issues
• Functionality issues
• Satisfaction issues and potential causes of user frustration