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Monday Mar 20, 2006
Remote accessibility testing
A new organisation, Usability Exchange, is offering remote accessibility testing for websites, reports BBC News.
For a fee (paid via PayPal) organisations can submit website tasks through a series of online forms that will be undertaken by disabled user-testers. A report will then be returned detailing how easy or difficult the task was to complete.
It's an interesting idea, especially since, according to a Disability Rights Commission (DRC) report, "as many as 45% of the problems experienced by the [disabled] user group were not a violation of any [WAI] Checkpoint, and would not have been detected without user testing."
The DRC have themselves produced a new report into this problem. The, not very catchily titled, 'Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78' has been developed by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in collaboration with BSI to outline good practice in commissioning websites that are accessible to and usable by disabled people.
Of course, while big agencies sometimes make user-testing seem very complicated and expensive, it can be done quite effectively with a handful of people being asked simple questions. Usability expert Steve Krug has lots of good advice about doing usability (and, therefore accessibility) testing yourself.
Posted by Tom Green ( 11:36 AM ) Link to this post Comments[1]
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