A New Generation in Testing Accessibility Gian Sampson-Wild

The Old Way of Testing What you do: Insert your URL A program runs You receive a result

The Old Way of Testing What you get: One Size Fits All Single page / Max 2000 pages Yes & No answers to the WCAG False positives and false negatives Checkpoints that aren’t tested

The Old Way of Testing Who provides these things: Bobby Cynthia Says AccessValet Hermish AskAlice

A New Generation of Testing What if you could… …not just identify images with missing alt attributes, but compare each image with its alt attribute …narrow down the pages you need to review for use of colour, change in language, use of tables

A New Generation of Testing PurpleCop is an automated testing tool developed by PurpleTop It collates various tags and text in your site so that you can review them for accessibility compliance

A New Generation of Testing PurpleCop takes the guesswork out of accessibility testing It allows, you, the owner of the site to decide whether an issue is an accessibility failure or not

A New Generation of Testing Who has used PurpleCop: Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games City of Port Phillip Council Scope Victoria DHS Companion Card

A New Generation of Testing “ Over the past year ACMI has found that PurpleCop reports are a great resource to help meet out site’s accessibility commitment. It provides useful, user- friendly feedback that targets only the areas of the site that need our attention.” Andrew Robinson ACMI Web Manager

Case Studies ACMI 25+ sub-sites 2,000+ pages 100+ content authors 100MB+ site

Case Studies This morning a sheet was circulated requesting URLs to test. These are the results.

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