Table of Contents
- Can we perform accessibility testing without screen readers?
- Is the screen reader the only way to perform manual accessibility testing?
- Without screen reader is it possible to scale accessibility testing at large?
- What skills are required to perform accessibility testing without a screen reader?
- How much time does it take to perform accessibility testing without screen readers?
- Here are some of the benefits of using a screen reader
- Conclusion
I was talking to a friend & the conversation towards how people with disability like me find accessibility bugs. I showed her a demo by sharing my screen reader voice through zoom & ran her through the process. Then the talk moved around how accessibility trainings are conducted, as a person with disability I believe in practical & firsthand training rather than running the crowd using the presentations where we talk only theory.
When I showed a demo to my friend, she asked me one question that kept me thinking, why is your training on accessibility testing focused so much on-screen reader. The immediate answer was I am a person with visual disability & I use screen reader day [...]