Accessibility Testing is defined as a type of Software Testing performed to ensure that the application being tested is usable by people with disabilities like hearing, colour blindness, old age and other disadvantaged groups. It is a subset of Usability Testing.
People with disabilities use assistive technology which helps them in operating a software product and we need to make sure that these tools that are assisting them work with the product we are producing.
Some examples of assistive technology are:
- Speech recognition software – It will convert the spoken word to text , which serves as input to the computer.
- Screen reader software – Used to read out the text that is displayed on the screen
- Screen Magnification Software– Used to enlarge the monitor and make reading easy for vision-impaired users.
- Special keyboard made for the users for easy typing who have motor control difficulties
We have some simple yet detailed tutorials explaining how to integrate several testing frameworks used in some programming languages, so you can see how automated tests are mapped from your code to Jira.