WCAG

Resources for the Testit Web Content Accessibility workshop

Tasks

Select between:

• Manually testing a web user interface By using the "WCAG Workshop - Criteria" document
• Using the WAVE evaluation tool on a web page
• Assessing the rules and regulations for your country by checking the official policies on W3
• Learn how to use voiceover and keyboard navigation with help from guides in the appropriate operating system folder ("MacOS" or "Windows")

Official resources

W3 website

The official website of the guidelines

• The fundamentals of accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/
• WCAG 2.0 overview: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
• The four principles: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/intro#understanding-the-four-principles-of-accessibility
• Countries´ policies: https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/

The Norwegian Universal Design Supervision Board / UUTilsynet

• Condensed information about WCAG in Norway in english: https://www.uutilsynet.no/english/information-english/252
• How to check your own website (in accordance to the Norwegian laws): https://www.uutilsynet.no/english/checking-your-own-website/916
• The standards simplified for testing, which the manual testing resource is based on (NB! written in norwegian) : https://www.uutilsynet.no/wcag-standarden/wcag-standarden/86

Technologies

WAVE Evaluation tool

1. Open your extensions shop
2. Search for the Wave Evaluation tool
3. install extension to your browser
4. Open a website you wish to test
5. select to "WAVE this page" from the extensions toolbar OR right-click the website and select "WAVE this page"

Vision simulator

https://lighthousefw.org/vision-simulator/