3 Accessibility Testing
Jonatan Elmäng edited this page 2026-05-11 09:24:55 +00:00

Accessibility Testing

Relevant issue: #183

Accessibility testing verifies that the website meets digital standards, ensuring the website can be used by everyone regardless of ability.

I have found three suitable candidates to be used for our project that is WAVE Evaluation tool, Aceit Accessibility Evaluator and Siteimprove.

WAVE has a chrome extenstion which means its useful for testing that new features comply with the standards. It checks the website against the requirements of Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG), and was easy to understand and use.

Aceit is a website that test against WCAG and EN 301 549(which is a European standard). You have to copy paste individual pages into their website and it gives back a report on the website. However to properly use this site we need a product key and it can only check public websites which means that it can only test the build that is set up on the server.

Siteimprove works in the same way as Wave, with a chrome extenstion, however it is a bit more unintuitive than WAVE and doesn't give as much information.

Conclusion

After testing the different options I think WAVE is the best choice for our project. It's easy too understand, has a clearer UI and works with our local host builds.