![]() Unfortunately, we cannot assign a single person all 78 success criteria and call it a day. Let’s revisit “Guideline 2.4 Navigable,” as an example: You can see that “Guideline 2.4 Navigable” is broken into several, more testable tasks-here are the first three criteria out of ten.Īnd just like that, we have the beginnings of a checklist. From the 13 guidelines, there are 78 total success criteria that become the tasks on my checklist. Guidelines are broken down into individual tasks or “success criteria” that identify ways in which we can meet requirements. For instance, “ Guideline 2.4 Navigable” explains that users should be able to navigate a site, find content, and determine where they are-the guideline by itself isn’t detailed enough to tell us what to test. While I think that the WCAG 2.1 principles and guidelines ( something I previously simplified into a 13-day study guide for my coworkers) provide a great overview of the different areas where accessibility is important, they aren’t a checklist. Now that we have a better understanding of the team and their responsibilities we can move on to creating the testing checklist. May collaborate with the content creator to understand the site structure but not as concerned with the content itself.May collaborate with the designer to understand the expected user experience.New work may include new website features as well as new content added to the site.Reviews all new work in staging before it is released to production.Does not usually collaborate with the content creator, content and site structure are explained through the design.Responsible for building out templates that are provided by the designer.Maintains the codebase and all environments.Collaborates with the developer to translate static design mockups into an interactive user experience, including animation and interactive components.Collaborates with the content creator to design templates for new content types.Responsible for the overall design of the website, adhering to brand guidelines.May collaborate with the developer to understand the capabilities of the CMS and request new features.Collaborates with the designer when new content will not work with existing templates and when additional visual media is required.Works primarily in the CMS backend to modify content and the navigation.Responsible for creating and maintaining the page hierarchy and structure of the content.Responsible for the creation of all content on the site, including text, images, and video.Now, think about the main responsibilities of each role and how they interact with each other: Content Creator For the purposes of this article tutorial, we’ll go with: Content Creator, Designer, Developer, and QA Tester. To get a better understanding of who should be responsible for what, you have to first understand how each member of your team contributes to the website. For example, if a content editor adds a complex graph to the page, as an image, whose job is it to make sure the appropriate alt text or long description is created and put in place? Mine? The content editor? Both? As a web developer, I don’t always have control over the content that goes on a page. There are so many things to check, and they might not always be relevant to one particular role. Testing for web accessibility can be an intimidating and maybe even overwhelming task. I can, however, show you how to make your own checklist (way more useful) in three steps, using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as our guide: My team is surely going to be structured differently than yours, so I can’t tell you who should do what. I could give you a generic checklist of things to test, but it doesn’t answer the question of who should be testing what-and that’s not sustainable, adaptable, or scalable. Instead, I want to talk about how you know you’ve built something accessible and how you test for it. I’m not even here to talk about what it takes to build accessibly. Don’t stop reading, I’m not here to tell you about the importance of web accessibility-as an industry, we’re already quite aware of how important it is.
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