Course: Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society

There are many different ways of involving users in the design and development of products, systems and services, but one of the very rewarding outcomes are the multitude of insights …

In week 5, we have seen how important it is not to disempower people by making technology applications inaccessible, hard to understand or use and we have also seen the …

In this video Andre Meixner, Head of User Centred Test (Accessibility & Usability) at T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH describes how his company carry out user testing on desktop computers with …

Involving users in accessibility tests is compatible with usability testing. In fact, sequence and evaluation methods are applicable to both types of testing. The main difference is, accessibility testing involves …

There are two main ways to deal with the problems of inaccessibility in everyday technologies. Both are necessary: 1. Do not try to re-invent the wheel Instead, make use of …

There are two types of conformance testing: one is automatic testing, using automatic tools to check for accessibility the other is manual testing where a human tests the pages against …

The combination of automatic testing and manual testing takes advantage of the strengths of both methods. Strengths The biggest advantages of automatic testing lie in its speed and scalability. It …

By now you will be well aware that accessibility testing focuses on making the web accessible for users with disabilities but it can help in many other ways such as …

Reading about conformance testing is not always easy as you have done completing the previous step. There are a myriad of documents and web pages to support the evaluation process …

This simple ‘before-and-after’ example illustrates some typical accessibility issues in web forms and how they can be addressed. These include adding required or obligatory input fields, labels for input fields, …

The topic of web accessibility is nearly as old as the web itself. In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee had already mentioned web accessibility at the second World Wide Web conference. Just …

As already mentioned the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 were developed by W3C and they explain how to make what is seen and heard on a web page accessible. …

In week 2 you were introduced to some of the most common assistive technologies for people with disabilities including the screen reader. In this exercise we ask you to use …

In the video you see Daniel Pöll describing how he navigates a web page using a screen reader, with the various elements being highlighted as he goes through using his …

WalkersGuide is a navigation app aiming at a novel service for blind pedestrians. It calculates accessible routes for walking and considers public transport information. The Android app offers step-by-step navigation …