Accessibility testing
Accessibility testing involves measuring the ease with which 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
- An increased understanding of blind and disabled 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)
Deliverables from the accessibility testing
Following the completion of the accessibility testing you'll receive a full report 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 optimising your website's accessibility.
During the accessibility testing
Airmiles' conversion rates soar
Airmiles has seen an increase of over 10% in travel booking volumes and 33% in customer logins to online shopping.
Read the Webcredible Airmiles case study.
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 one-way mirror between the two rooms. Using state-of-the-art software we 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 with a range of disabilities:
- 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.
Take a 360° virtual tour of our usability lab
Before the accessibility testing
Before the accessibility testing is carried out we usually conduct an expert accessibility evaluation of your website. The accessibility evaluation is cheaper and quicker than accessibility testing, and will highlight issues that would have arisen straightaway in the accessibility testing. We'll combine the findings from the accessibility evaluation with those of the accessibility testing into the one report.
Before conducting the accessibility testing, we design and prepare tasks for participants so that they'll be completing real user journeys on your site. 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 info at webcredible.co.uk. We'll discuss your accessibility testing needs and requirements with no pushy sales pitch and no obligation to you.
