Accessibility auditing and reporting
You audit a site against the WCAG success criteria automatically and by hand, report findings by severity and tie the fix plan into continuous integration.
Level 401 · 14 lessons · 12 practice labs
Lessons
Audit method
- Audit scope and page sampling
- Testing the success criteria one by one
- Systematic screen reader testing
- Zoom, reflow and text spacing
- Short task: a one-page audit
Special content
- Auditing video, audio and captions
- Accessibility in documents and PDFs
- Accessibility on the mobile web
- Cognitive accessibility and time limits
- Short task: audit a training video page
Report and process
- Reporting findings by severity
- Writing an accessibility statement
- Accessibility tests in continuous integration
- Capstone: a full audit of an online shop
Practice labs
- Pick a page sample for an audit: Choose a ten-page sample from a hundred-page municipal site that covers its range of templates and processes.
- Test text spacing and reflow: Test a bank information page at 320 pixels wide with increased text spacing and document any lost content.
- Audit a quote flow against the success criteria: Test an insurance quote flow end to end against the relevant WCAG success criteria and produce a results table.
- Write a screen reader test script: Write the steps and expected announcements for buying an event ticket with a screen reader.
- Audit touch targets in the mobile view: Find small touch targets, orientation lock and blocked zoom in a food-ordering site's mobile view.
- Audit a timed form for cognitive load: Audit a timed exam application form for time extensions, plain language and error prevention, and write recommendations.
- Check a training video's captions: Check a training video's captions for timing, speaker names and sound effects.
- Audit a guidance PDF: Audit an application guide PDF's tag structure, reading order and image alternatives.
- Decide where audio description is needed: Find the moments needing audio description in a promo video with silent scenes and write the description text.
- Rank findings by severity: Rank twelve accessibility findings from critical to low by their impact on users and how often they occur.
- Write an accessibility statement: Write a statement for a municipal site based on the audit results, listing known issues and a contact route.
- Add accessibility tests to the pipeline: Add automated accessibility tests to a shop project's pipeline and fail the build on a new contrast error.
About this course
You audit a site against the WCAG success criteria automatically and by hand, report findings by severity and tie the fix plan into continuous integration.
What you will learn
- Audit method
- Special content
- Report and process
Prerequisites
You should have practised the topics of the same path up to level 301.
Lab environment
Lessons run on your own Kali Linux desktop in the browser, with the tools ready in their windowed interfaces. Nothing to install; a computer screen is recommended.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this course right for my level?
- The course is at level 401; it assumes you know the topics of the lower-level courses.
- Is there anything to install?
- No. Every lesson runs in your own lab environment that opens in the browser.
- How do lessons work?
- Each lesson has 8 to 10 steps and a short quiz. Early steps show the command to type, later steps give less help; if two attempts fail, the solution opens.
- Can I try it for free?
- Yes. The first three lessons of every course are free.