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Accessibility & Usability Testing...

Ensuring your site is accessible is a fundamental of any good website. Web accessibility testing ensures your website or web-based application can be accessed by all users. Web accessibility testing as a minimum examines how your website or application has been coded by developers. Symplicit conducts an accessibility audit in which code for key parts of your site or application is checked to ensure it meets international standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Many business owners are unsure how and why they should make their website accessible, and a common misconception is that ‘accessibility’ means catering for vision-impaired users by making the website bland, boring or ugly. Thankfully nowadays we can have great looking, accessible websites, and the business case for ensuring your site is accessible is compelling – more customers will be able to see your website more easily.

Design Direct clients find our testing services useful because we provide an appropriate mix of techniques and tools. Depending upon your needs a test may include use of eye-tracking technology, create benchmark measures or broaden focus to become an exploratory research technique.

Accessibility covers:

  • people who don't use a mouse and rely on the keyboard for navigation
  • people who are vision-impaired or blind
  • people using browsers with JavaScript and/or support for Flash switched off (this is quite common in a corporate or government environment)
  • people using slow internet connections
  • people using minority browsers or operating systems.
Usability testing
In all the usability sessions I have facilitated I've never heard anyone say "I'd prefer this if it was a harder to use". A few usability sessions with some potential users reap huge rewards and uncover any problems that even the most seasoned designers may not anticipate. I never under-estimate how many great ideas can come from users. I like to think that the websites I build are appealing but ultimately "invisible". I want users to be able to use your website without having to think about it.
 






















































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