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Testing and Tooling Difficulties

Derived from 8 responses out of 69
Room 306 C
Facilitator: Adrian Jenkins

Theme Description

Accessibility testing remains challenging due to labor-intensive processes, expensive tooling, and the difficulty of testing without personal experience using assistive technologies. There's also over-reliance on automated tools that cannot solve all accessibility problems.

Participants (9)

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Source Responses

  1. Response 1:
    "Limited inclusive design, lack of accessibility testing, poor documentation for assistive tools"
  2. Response 2:
    "A11y testing is still too hard and labor intensive"
  3. Response 3:
    "Lack of checks or tests before new features are released"
  4. Response 4:
    "Accessibility tooling can be expensive or tough to learn"
  5. Response 5:
    "I wish git hub had an automatic a11y test by default"
  6. Response 6:
    "Over reliance, or an assumption that automated accessibility tools will solve all the problems."
  7. Response 7:
    "Difficulty testing for accessibility. Example: it is hard to test for screen reader compatibility if you are not comfortable using a screen reader yourself."
  8. Response 8:
    "User testing"
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