Usability for Everyone

I recently had the privilage of presenting at CAST 2022 in a day long tutorial on accessibility testing. As part of the conference I made a resource website for the attendees. Built using Svelte and hosted on Github. https://cordelliay.github.io/a11yTest/

Overview

Fifteen percent of the world's population (over 1 billion people) live with disabilities yet it is often a missed part of our testing process. Our websites and applications should be built and tested to ensure that as many users as possible can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with it. Understanding these diverse users and the different ways they interact with our applications can make a better, more robust, product. In this session we will learn the different ways that users interact with your site while also learning the basics of accessibility. We will learn how to assess the accessibility of a component or page, how to use accessibility testing tools and how to interpret the results. Additionally we will learn practical manual tests that will help you quickly audit the usability or your application. Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and browser inspect tools is helpful, but not required.