End-to-end testing leveled up the way Asana engineers think about accessibility
Before partnering with Assistiv Labs, Asana’s accessibility team generally grouped testing into two categories: automated and manual. Assistiv Labs’ end-to-end accessibility testing service has helped produce a testing workflow that redefines automated and manual. Because accessibility feedback loops are shorter, bugs are resolved faster.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops
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Creating accessibility systems to fix accessibility issues
How do we make impactful accessibility change that better integrates into what we’re already doing? The answer is to create systems around accessibility work, instead of treating it like a barrier or a checkmark.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops
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How far can automated tools go towards ensuring accessibility?
Some accessibility tooling vendors estimate that their products can catch anywhere from 30 to 80% of “accessibility issues”. But what is defined as an “accessibility issue”? How are these numbers calculated? Here, we’ll explore the most common class of automated accessibility tooling, Static Code Analysis (SCA), and how new automation techniques can expand the universe of what’s possible.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops, Developers, Quality Engineers
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Disability Pride Month
As we move through August, it’s important to carry forward the spirit of Disability Pride Month, which we celebrated in July, with a lens of intersectionality. Disability Pride recognizes how disability intersects with other marginalized groups such as race, gender, and socioeconomic status, and calls for urgency in amplifying the voices of disabled people at their intersections for the benefit of all in both physical and digital spaces.
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How Continuous Accessibility contributes to accessibility maturity
Accessibility maturity models can improve outcomes both for internal employees and external users of our products. Much of improving your organization’s accessibility maturity is about people and policy, but there is a slice of it that can benefit from smartly delegating to the machines.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops, Developers, Quality Engineers
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AAPI Month + Disability
May 1st marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (#AAPI). Thus, it's a great time to highlight people at the intersection of AAPI+Disabled.
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Confronting ableism to build a more inclusive web
Web software, like all technology, amplifies the priorities of the people who build it. What does that say about our commitment to web accessibility?
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Using Chrome Live Caption to augment speech viewers
Screen reader speech viewers are notoriously inaccurate. Luckily, Assistiv Labs’ live testing product supports Google Chrome Live Caption. Read on to learn when this is a viable way to ensure your testing results are correct.
Audience: Quality Engineers
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Women’s History Month + Disability
It’s #WomensHistoryMonth, and amidst the celebration it’s imperative to highlight the often overlooked contributions of Disabled Women.
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Black History Month + Disability
As we start Black History Month, often the stories we share omit Disabled identity and experience when it applies. Thus, I wanted to start a series amplifying important figures with an intersection of Black+Disabled.
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How End-to-End Testing moves us closer to Continuous Accessibility
When an accessibility E2E test passes, you should have high confidence that the user flow being tested can be completed using a keyboard, a screen reader like NVDA, or voice control. And this should happen on every code change, providing near-real time feedback for developers.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops, Developers, Quality Engineers
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Continuous Accessibility: What, Why, How
At Assistiv Labs, we think systems that give near-instant insight at the code change level—with broad coverage of WCAG guidelines—will go a long way towards providing the kind of feedback developers need in order to ship highly accessible products as the default.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops, Developers, Quality Engineers
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Getting started with accessibility UX Research
Often when a new accessibility initiative gets underway at a company, people realize how valuable it would be to include disabled participants in User Experience Research (UXR). In this article we’ll discuss how to overcome common difficulties and feel more confident about including diverse participants in meaningful research activities.
Audience: UX Researchers, Designers
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Which Screen Readers and Browsers are best for Accessibility Testing?
Do you need to test your app on Windows and Mac, in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari, with every popular screen reader? These most popular browser and screen pairings can speed up your testing.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops, Developers, Quality Engineers
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The History of Sticky Keys
The story behind why Sticky Keys opens when you press Shift five times—and how that early accessibility tool was invented twice.
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Where Assistiv Labs fits into the W3C’s Accessibility Maturity Model
The first draft of the W3C’s Accessibility Maturity Model is out and packed with useful guidance for accessibility managers. It’s also a reminder of why it’s so important to provide easy access to assistive technologies.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops
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How to start testing your websites and apps in screen readers
A beginner's guide to using JAWS, NVDA, and other popular screen readers to navigate by element type, with a virtual cursor, and using single letter navigation.
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Reading time: 9 minutes
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Simplified guide to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
The eight core parts of building a WCAG accessible website, with text for everything, responsive design, appropriate contrast, keyboard shortcuts, outlines, and standards-compliant development.
Audience: Designers, Developers
Reading time: 7 minutes
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How to help your developers manually test accessibility with screen readers
Getting your developers to manually test accessibility using screen readers doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. Making the transition boils down to four steps.
Audience: Heads of Accessibility, Accessibility Ops
Reading time: 6 minutes
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