STAREAST 2019 Industry Presentation : Accessibility Automation for the Agile Tester

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Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 9:45am to 10:45am

Accessibility Automation for the Agile Tester

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  • In a lot of ways, accessibility is talked about and practiced as if it is a hydra dragon. Every time you think you’ve made an improvement, you cut off one head of the accessibility dragon and two heads grow back. In particular, there are a lot of myths out there that you can’t do accessibility in an agile development environment.
  • A lot of that stems from accessibility being thought of something you do manually, and also often only as user acceptance testing or usability testing. And while that’s an important part of accessibility, there is much more you can do to integrate accessibility into your automated agile processes.
  • In this presentation, we will cover automated accessibility practices for the agile tester and how accessibility can integrate into your company's agile transformation.
 
 
 
In a lot of ways, accessibility is talked about and practiced as if it is a hydra dragon. Every time you think you’ve made an improvement, you cut off one head of the accessibility dragon and two heads grow back. In particular, there are a lot of myths out there that you can’t do accessibility in an agile development environment. A lot of that stems from accessibility being thought of something you do manually, and also often only as user acceptance testing or usability testing. And while that’s an important part of accessibility, there is much more you can do to integrate accessibility into your automated agile processes. In this presentation, we will cover automated accessibility practices for the agile tester.

Joshua McClure

Joshua McClure is a Solutions Architect at Deque Systems. Josh has spent over 10 years and counting in the computer software industry as a developer and engineer, he has a passion for solving complex problems using technology.