Practical Accessibility Testing

Tips for making it work

Start small and make mistakes

• Start with homepages
• Start with high traffic / high visibility pages
• Pilot with a sampling
  • a large group
  • a small group
  • CMS site
  • static site
• Don't try to do it all at once

Engage with your community

• Services for Students with Disabilities?
• Attend events (lunch and learns, etc.)
• Host events (bring in people with disablities)
• Stay afterwards, meet people
• Understand challenges of your users
• Understand challenges of teams you support
• Create a formal or informal committee
• Other similar organizations / institutions

Be accessible and flexible

• Prioritize help requests
• Making small improvements is better than no progress