Keyboard testing a preferences form
Investigate a communication-preferences form and find four problems that affect keyboard access, operation, focus order, or focus visibility.
Exercises
Investigate deliberately created examples and practise focused accessibility testing techniques.
Foundations
Broad techniques that commonly form the beginning of an accessibility review.
Finding visual problems in an account dashboard
Inspect a realistic account dashboard and find four problems involving contrast, color, text spacing, and interaction states.
Comparing automated and manual findings
Scan an event-registration page, verify the reported results, and use a short manual review to find what automation misses.
Display and adaptation
Test how content responds to presentation settings, input conditions, and user preferences.
Testing text spacing on a community-services page
Apply a text-spacing override and investigate lost content and functionality in a community support directory.
Testing forced colors in a journey planner
Compare a public-transport journey planner before and after forced colors and investigate lost information and interaction cues.
Testing motion preferences on a parcel-tracking dashboard
Compare a parcel tracker before and after reduced motion and investigate movement that continues or cannot be controlled.
Testing touch interaction on a community-festival map
Investigate target geometry, orientation, gesture alternatives, and cancellation in a festival map and schedule.
Testing an appointment booking at high zoom
Test an appointment-booking page at a narrow zoom-equivalent width and with text enlarged to find four reflow and resizing problems.
Content and structure
Test whether information is represented and communicated accessibly.
Testing a community announcement video
Investigate captions, transcript content, visual-only information, and native player behavior in a short community-centre announcement.
Reviewing structure and links in a community resources directory
Use heading navigation and link lists to assess the structure and link purpose of a community-services directory.
Testing a community-course timetable with a screen reader
Investigate table names, navigation, headers, and empty cells in a course timetable and compare them with a correctly marked-up venue table.
Evaluating image alternative text in context
Compare meaningful, decorative, linked, missing, and broken-image alternatives on a community-volunteering page.
Reviewing icons and SVGs in a community events dashboard
Assess meaningful, decorative, and functional SVGs while managing saved events in a community dashboard.
Testing language changes on a community library noticeboard
Review Finnish, Swedish, and English notices while separating language-markup defects from voice and platform limitations.
Interaction and tasks
Test controls and workflows that users must operate or complete.
Testing controls in a community events finder
Investigate names, roles, states, keyboard behavior, and result announcements in a realistic event-finding interface.
Testing modal dialogs in account settings
Compare an incomplete custom modal with a native dialog while testing naming, focus, background availability, and closing behavior.
Testing a community-course registration form
Complete, invalidate, correct, and submit a realistic registration form while examining its form relationships and messages.
Testing status messages in a community activities search
Investigate how a dynamic activities search communicates loading, results, saving, removal, no-results, and urgent-error updates.
Testing session timeout in a community-support application
Complete and interrupt a fictional multi-step application while testing its warning, extension, expiry, and recovery behavior.
Testing authentication for a community-services booking
Investigate input purposes, paste, password reveal, verification, memory demands, errors, and recovery in a fictional sign-in flow.