3 Testing Web Accessibility
WAassistant is based on the following assumptions about Web testing:
- Web accessibility is tested by a group of people with different roles.
- There are individual testers who test particular accessibility
features. Typically, blind users can test speech output in various
Web browsers using different assistive technologies. Those testers
needn't be skilled in other areas than using the particular end user
environment.
- There are (one or more) managers responsible for the whole testing
project and its outputs.
- Required human work should be minimized.
The testing process is driven by a set of checkpoints. Each of
the checkpoints represents a particular task which must be done before
proceeding with other tasks. The following sections describe the most
important checkpoints and stages of the WAchecker's testing process.