Accessibility testing
Accessibility testing involves measuring the ease with which blind and disabled users can complete common tasks on your website. Accessibility testing on your website can lead to:
- A truly accessible and usable website, easy for users to complete your goal for them
- A greater level of understanding of special needs' users and buy-in into accessibility
Webcredible are very enthusiastic and highly knowledgeable. Their help has proved invaluable in helping us to identify practical improvements to the accessibility and usability of our websites.
Lee Chamberlain, Simmons & Simmons (more testimonials)
What you'll receive after the accessibility testing
Following the completion of the accessibility testing you'll receive a full report on the testing and an oral presentation summarising the main points. The report outlines the findings, both positive and negative, from the accessibility testing and offers specific recommendations for maximising your website's accessibility. You also receive a CD-ROM featuring a video of all the accessibility testing and a highlights clip.
During the accessibility testing
Why we're different
Webcredible does things slightly differently to (and much better than) our competitors:
- We know more than just usability and accessibility
- We're experts in what we do
- We're passionate about our work
- We don't have 'project managers'
- You'll enjoy working with us
- We believe in knowledge sharing so you'll learn a lot from us
Find out in more detail about why we're different.
We strongly advise you come watch the accessibility testing live - it's truly an eye-opening experience. Testing takes place in our purpose-built usability lab and there's a viewing room next door with a two-way mirror between the two rooms. Using state-of-the-art software we are able to capture what the user is doing on-screen, together with audio commentary and a video of the user carrying out the test.
Webcredible can carry out accessibility testing with users from a range of special needs groups:
- Visually impaired (screen reader users)
- Partially sighted (screen magnifier users)
- Dyslexic
- Learning difficulties
- Motor impaired
- Elderly
During the accessibility testing participants are instructed to think aloud at all times. If they ever fall silent for more than a few seconds they're encouraged to keep talking. Our accessibility testers are expertly trained to ask questions and elicit thoughts in a non-biased and neutral manner. Throughout the sessions an experienced Webcredible moderator will sit with each participant and prompt for feedback.
Take a 360° virtual tour of our usability lab
Before the accessibility testing
Before the accessibility testing is carried out we always recommend carrying out an expert accessibility audit of your website. The accessibility audit is cheaper and quicker than accessibility testing, and will highlight issues that would have arisen straightaway in the accessibility testing. After you've made the necessary changes to the website we then carry out the accessibility testing.
Before conducting the accessibility testing, we design and prepare activities for participants so that they'll be completing real tasks on your site. The activities will be based on some of the common tasks that your site visitors regularly undertake. As standard, we run a pilot testing session before launching into the full accessibility testing.
What next?
Please contact us by phone on 0870 242 6095 or by e-mail at accessibility at webcredible.co.uk. We'll discuss your accessibility testing needs and requirements with no pushy sales pitch and no obligation to you.