The Automated Accessibility Coverage Report
Why we need to change how we view accessibility testing coverage.
The core charter of digital accessibility testing professionals around the world is to help ensure that digital assets are accessible to all, including people with disabilities.
There are two common success metrics these pros use:
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Testing and resolution progress against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Success Criteria.
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Testing and resolution progress against the raw volume of issues, typically in the order of severity or impact.
Developed by the W3C, WCAG Success Criteria exist to provide guidance to us all, helping define what accessible conditions should look like.
Based on 20 years of industry experience and thousands of client engagements, we believe that to truly make an immediate and sustainable long-term impact on your state of accessibility, the best method of measurement is total issues addressed in order of severity or impact. This does not negate the need for compliance tracking in any way, but it better enables organizations to move the needle, and build a user-experience focused culture.
In order to “do the most good” without disrupting existing processes, a combination of automated and manual testing procedures has become standard practice (excluding [...]