I offer a variety of differnt services, but whichever of these you choose, it will be customised to meet the exact requirements of your website: No two websites are the same, audiences and the sites purpose differ, and so logically so too should the exact nature of the testing performed on your website.
I strongly recommend, in the first instance that a preliminary examination of your websites accessibility is made; Depending on the outcome of this it may then be the case that a full Accessibility Audit (also termed conformance testing) is conducted. I won't useually recommend conformance testing/Audit, if it appears from the preliminary review that the website has little chance of meeting either level A or level AA WCAG test criteria. In such a case it may be prefered for the site to be fully checked by your design team to ensure it is "up to scratch" before then returning back to me for the Conformance testing.
Conformance testing, or Auiditing will check your websites accessibility against the WCAG guidelines, and if the site passes these checks it will then be able to display its level of conformance for all website visitors to see
As part of both Conformance and preliminary testing, I conduct limited 'user testing' of the site, however, some clients may wish to consider full user-testing once a site has successfully passed conformance testing.
I do not useually recommend full user testing for the majority of sites, as conformance testing, and the user testing I conduct as part of this will provide a very good level of accessibility. However, Conformance testing alone cannot ensure a site is accessible with real-life users, who may have complex, or multiple disabilities, in such a case user-testing may be required.
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This looks at several issues that affect basic accessibility of web-sites. Some investigation of the underlying HTML/CSS code, combined with limited user-testing on a selection of pages from the entirety of the site. The full conformance testing (below) will typically include a brief preliminary review of accessibility; this may form the basis for concentrating attentions on those parts identified as areas of concern.
As a blind screen-reader user with over a decades experience with JAWS and other screen readers, I conduct an in-depth user testing protocol tailored to the specific website being tested. Additionally, I will test the web-site using a text only screen reader/web-browser, such as Thunder/WebIE.
Identifying common tasks a user may perform on your web-site, then assessing the ease with which these can be accomplished with JAWS. This method cannot highlight all accessibility issues, but can very quickly demonstrate if certain areas are problematic to some of the most important accessibility guidelines.
Full conformance testing of web-sites to the WCAG 1.0 or WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Utilising a combination of automated tools and detailed manual checking of the HTML and CSS code of the web-site.
A typical full Accessibility Assessment will consist of preliminary examination of accessibility, user-testing with the JAWS screen-reader and full conformance testing to either WCAG 1.0, or 2.0 guidelines.
From this array of detailed testing, a report will be produced, outlining the level of conformance of the web-site, suggestions (if appropriate) on how the web-site's accessibility can be improved, and detailed results and protocols of the testing procedures.
With both conformance testing and user-testing I always include testing for Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and at least one text only browser. Can also include other browsers on request.
Where possible please contact me via the E-Mail address on my Contact page The cost of testing any given web-site will depend on the type of testing, the size of the web-site and its complexity, and ultimately on how long the testing procedures take.
