How Building Accessibility Automated Testing in DevOps Helps Reduce Post-Deployment Overheads
#A11y, aka Accessibility is a hot topic nowadays. It is not only an important business priority for each digitally transformed company to increase user retention and sales revenue, but it also ensures that people with disabilities can use any digital product without any barriers. Many organizations started to focus on digital accessibility by investing tremendous amounts of budget in vendor or user testing post product deployment. However, quite a portion of this budget can be eliminated by educating their product teams, especially engineers to adopt accessibility automated test in their DevOps. Accessibility automated tests integrated into DevOps process can help engineers detect more than 25% accessibility issues prior committing their codes. This session will demonstrate a few cutting-edge accessibility automated testing methods in DevOps, and with a focus on Microsoft's Accessibility Insights Open-Source solutions. Jia Ma will also share the data that has been collected across hundreds of enterprise products to help attendees understand the quantified impact, as well as the future of shifting accessibility test further to the left of the engineering life cycle in an agile manner.
Jia Ma is a technically skilled Co-Founder and Product Manager with years of experience in leading multiple product teams and organizations concurrently delivering cost effective products and services, with obsession over customers and passion for data. She is currently a Senior Product Manager within Data Platform + Growth Team at Microsoft. With over three years of software development experience, over six years of product/program management experience, and subject matter expertise in digital accessibility, Jia deeply understands technical challenges of digital accessibility for software developers, and knows how to demystify accessibility for business leaders, program/product managers, and engineers at different career levels.
Ankur Garg is a technically skilled Program Manager with years of experience in leading multiple product teams and organizations. He is currently a Senior Technical Program Manager within the Accessibility Team at Microsoft. With over five years of software development experience, over 13 years of program management experience, and subject matter expertise in digital accessibility, Ankur deeply understands technical challenges of digital accessibility for software developers and has experience to develop and implement strategies to improve accessibility. He also establishes, manages, and continuously improves accessibility services that make it increasingly effortless to build accessible experiences at scale.