[Athen] Testing Web Accessibility

Karen Sorensen karen.sorensen at pcc.edu
Fri Jul 10 14:29:43 PDT 2015


Hi Jessica,
The Chrome WAVE extension will work in your LMS (it's more up to date than
the Firefox WAVE extension. )
We do automated and manual testing at our institution to check online
courses against WCAG 2.0 AA standards. When we encounter interactive
elements however (elements that normally would require input with a mouse),
we have end users of assistive technologies do usability testing.
Interactive objects are not easily tested with automated tools or by manual
testers who are not native users of AT. We currently have experienced JAWS
and VoiceOver end users do testing for us of these interactive objects. We
would like to add a Dragon user and a keyboard only user to our team.
For our automated testing we use Sortsite and WAVE. But I just want to
really stress that manual testing which we all realize is needed in
addition to the automated testing, must actually include real end users.
This is so often ignored, and I can tell you there really is no substitute.
I'd be happy to share our testing process with anyone who is interested.
Best,
Karen


Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
www.pcc.edu/access
Portland Community College
971-722-4720
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