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Making Accessibility testing just part of the process

Alistair will provide an overview of modern Devops / Continuous Delivery practices, in order to illustrate how the infrastructure used to support these activities can also be used to support effective / efficient accessibility testing.

In his presentation he'll demonstrate;

• some examples that utilise a stand-alone Accessibility Testing Engine (written in JavaScript),

• where in the development pipeline accessibility testing can be done,

• and with what type of tests.

Accessibility testing can simply become part of your process.

Speaker Bio:

Alistair Garrison is the Director of Accessibility Research at Level Access. As a passionate and long-time champion of web accessibility, he has spent the majority of his career devoted to the specification and development of web accessibility evaluation methods, applications, and consultancy services to support inherent accessibility in the enterprise. Over the past few years, he has become progressively more focused on QA tool-supported accessibility testing; and how best to integrate it into Agile development processes. Alistair has been an invited expert for W3C/WAI for many years, and has helped to create several W3C / WAI documents (including the WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology, and WCAG 2.0 Techniques). Alistair currently participates in W3C/WAI’s WCAG 2.0 Task Force for Mobile Accessibility.

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