Mobile Accessibility Testing Workshop

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Learn all about Mobile Accessibility Testing in this full-day, hands-on workshop taught by Gian Wild, AccessibilityOz CEO and accessibility testing expert.

Objectives

• Learn about mobile testing concepts and methods.

• Get hands-on experience in using the new test process.

• Learn how to apply testing methods in practice for different platforms and different situations.

Outline

The full day advanced testing session covers a wide range of advanced testing topics:

• Mobile testing methodology overview

• About mobile testing

• Types of mobile sites

• Testing methods

• Capturing errors

• Examples of mobile accessibility errors

• Variations on the page (responsive sites only)

• Mobile testing methodology

• Identify what needs to be tested

• Test critical mobile-specific interoperability

• Test mobile-specific interaction

• Test mobile assistive technology support

• Test mobile and desktop relationship errors

• Test non-specific mobile issues common on mobile.

About Gian Wild

Gian Wild is the CEO, Founder and President of AccessibilityOz, established in Australia in 2011, and the United States in 2015. Gian has worked in the accessibility industry since 1998. She worked on the first Level AAA accessible web site in Australia (Disability Information Victoria) and developed one of the first automated accessibility testing tools, PurpleCop, in 2000.

Gian spent six years on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to the development of WCAG2 and is currently a member of the Automated WCAG Monitoring-Community Group. Gian is on the Higher Education Content Steering Group for Accessibility Switchboard, the Secretary of the OzeWAI conference in Australia, and she is a committee member of the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium conference in the United States. She also chairs two of the symposiums sub-committees: the Mobile Testing Sub-Committee and the Native App Testing Sub-Committee. The committees work to create up-to-date mobile accessibility testing guidelines.

Gian often speaks at both web and accessibility conferences around the world, including in the United States, Europe, South America and Canada. She spoke at the United Nations on the importance of accessibility at the Eighth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2017, Gian was nominated as Australian of the Year.