What we learned from getting our autocomplete tested for accessibility
What we learned from getting our autocomplete tested for accessibility
Posted by:
Ed Horsford, Posted on: 15 May 2018
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Categories:
Accessibility, Testing
We’ve been working on an autocomplete/location picker for use across government. I blogged last year about what an autocomplete is and why we are building one.
While we were building it, we had our autocomplete/location picker tested for accessibility. We had completed a fair amount of in-house testing with a range of assistive technologies. We thought working with a third party to test it would be a great way of checking that we were on the right track.
It’s good we did. We found a couple of major issues and the team as a whole learned a lot from the experience. Here’s what we did and what we found out.
Getting the testing done
We had our autocomplete tested by the Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC). They are one of several companies who specialise in accessibility testing and auditing. The majority of DAC’s testers have access needs.They are expert users but they depend on services being accessible [...]