Marcy Sutton-Todd marcysutton

Accessibility Testing for Engineers

Ahoy, engineering team!

I'd like to share some best practices around accessibility testing: what to look for, how to test it, how to balance the work with other priorities.

The important things to remember are that:

Accessibility is about access for disabled people. Marginalizing their experience forever is continuous discrimination, full stop.
The best time to start is now. The earlier you address it the better, but you can always iterate as you move forward.

A dedicated accessibility space to ask questions, help other people figure stuff out or chat about accessibility in general.

The current admins are:

// What is the nature of the issue? Which browser and/or Assistive Technology?

// Step-by-step instructions explaining how to reproduce the problem. Environment required, explicit identification of the component in question

// A set of assumptions which, when tested, verify that the accessibility requirement was met.

To apply a pull request, make sure your local develop branch is up to date. Then, create a new branch for that pull request:

git checkout -b some-user-feature

Run the following commands to apply all commits from that pull request on top of your branch's local history:

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	import React from "react"
	import { Link } from "gatsby"

	import Layout from "../components/layout"
	import SEO from "../components/seo"
	import "./styles.scss"

	const SecondPage = () => (
	<Layout>
	<SEO title="Page two" />

	module.exports = function (grunt) {
	'use strict'

	require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt)

	grunt.initConfig({

	mochaTest: {
	test: {
	options: {

	var jsdom = require('jsdom');

	// Some html page
	var html = [
	'<html>',
	'<body>',
	'<p>An image without an alt tag! <img src="some.jpg" /></p>',
	'<h2>Not an h1</h2>',
	'<h5>blabla</h5>',
	'<h4></h4>',

	import {expect} from 'chai';
	import App from '../app/components/App';

	import a11yHelper from "./a11yHelper";

	describe('Accessibility', function () {
	this.timeout(10000);

	it('Has no errors', function () {
	let config = {};