Coding QA Podcast: Episode 61 - Accessibility Testing

In this week's episode of Coding QA, Mark and Jim sit down once again with fellow team member Clay Compton to discuss Accessibility testing. Clay's been in charge of this area for years on the ASP.NET team.  Listen in as he shares his experience and discusses:

1. What does "accessible" mean for software?

2. How did Clay become an expert in accessibility testing?

3. Why should you care about software accessibility?
4. Section 508 compliance and the US government

5. Accessibility testing tools

6. Interesting accessibility bugs

Links from the show:

Resources
 

Microsoft Accessibility Portal

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

MSDN Accessibility Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb735024.aspx

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Portal

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

WebAIM

http://webaim.org/

AbleGamers

http://www.ablegamers.com/

Tools
 

Windows 7 Software Development Toolkit

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924

Paciello Group Colour Contrast Analyser

http://paciellogroup.com/node/18?q=node/20

PEAT (Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool)

http://trace.wisc.edu/peat

AccChecker

http://acccheck.codeplex.com