Testing for Accessibility
Source: https://accessibility.web-resources.upenn.edu/testing-evaluating-accessibility Parent: https://accessibility.web-resources.upenn.edu/get-help
Testing for accessibility can happen at any stage of a site or application's lifecycle.
Accessibility testing is a combination of automated and manual evaluation. Automated tools can only pick up 40% or less of accessibility errors without human evaluation (source(link is external)). Manual testing, in conjunction with automated testing, is a must.
Penn uses Pope Tech(link is external) as our accessibility compliance monitoring platform. Pope Tech is built off of the same engine as the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) WAVE evaluation tool(link is external). WAVE is a free industry standard tool that can be used to validate the accessibility of a page’s structure, content, and the contrast of colors used in a design.
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All members of the University and UPHS community are eligible to receive a Pope Tech Account.