What is Accessibility Testing?
Accessibility testing evaluates whether your web and mobile apps work for people with visual, hearing, physical, or cognitive disabilities. It creates useful coverage for visual and interaction-based accessibility.
Run accessibility web tests with Perfecto or build it into mobile QAs and give your team a repeatable way to catch usability gaps before they reach real users.
Why Accessibility Testing Tools Are Necessary — and Why Most Teams Are Behind
Accessibility website testing and mobile accessibility testing help teams identify barriers that can render digital experiences harder for people with disabilities to use. Bringing these checks into regular development and testing cycles gives teams more opportunities to find accessibility issues before release.
On top of that, organizations have to comply with WCAG, Section 508, and the ADA in terms of accessibility. Falling short carries financial risks, such as penalties ranging from $75,000 to $150,000 per violation.
This makes consistent WCAG compliance testing and ADA compliance testing important parts of quality planning for applicable accessibility requirements.
Accessibility testing...
Ensures usability
Makes content accessible to all
Meets legal requirements
Improves overall experience
Build Accessibility Compliance Testing into Your Compliance Strategy
Closing the gaps means treating accessibility compliance testing as a standing part of your test cycle, rather than a periodic scramble — with results synced into the same test reporting you already use for everything else.
- Ensure Usability: Run website accessibility checkers against accessibility requirements.
- Accessible to All: Automated accessibility testing to ensure everyone can navigate, read, hear, and interact with digital content.
- Meet Legal Requirements: Incorporate WCAG compliance testing and ADA compliance testing into a repeatable testing strategy.
- Find Issues Early: Align accessibility web tests with development and existing test cycles, not late-stage reviews.
Bring Web and Mobile Accessibility Testing Together
Perfecto gives teams a unified accessibility testing tool for web and mobile apps, helping you build broader coverage into existing workflows.
Test Beyond a Standalone Website Accessibility Checker
Perfecto incorporates accessibility website testing into existing testing workflows, so your teams don’t have to relearn testing steps.
On top of tools like a website accessibility checker or ADA website checker, the platform can:
- Surface potential accessibility problems on the page.
- Run repeatable accessibility web tests as applications change.
- Offer more opportunities to catch issues during development, not after the fact.
- Integrate with axe and other solutions.
Mobile Accessibility Testing for Native and Hybrid Apps
Perfecto runs on top of Appium, allowing you to add accessibility scenarios directly into iOS and Android functional tests.
Mobile experiences introduce accessibility considerations that browser-based accessibility web tests can't cover, such as:
- Screen readers
- Touch targets
- Interface hierarchy
- Dynamic text
- Device behavior
- VoiceOver and TalkBack
- Operating system differences
What Automated Accessibility Testing Looks Like with Perfecto
Perfecto combines web and mobile accessibility testing, automation, integrations, reporting, and real-device testing in one platform. This gives enterprise teams a way to expand coverage while keeping it connected to the development and testing processes they already use.
Unified Testing
Let teams manage accessibility testing for web and mobile apps from a single platform. Rather than separating accessibility work by channel, teams can connect it with broader functional testing and quality efforts.
Advanced Automation
Automate the accessibility testing tool to reduce manual effort for repeatable checks. This approach boosts testing frequency and helps developers receive accessibility findings earlier in the release cycle.
Full Toolchain Integration
Sync with axe and the rest of your existing toolchain, and let the results feed into a unified test reporting environment. Teams get a more connected alternative to relying on separate accessibility website testing.
Centralized Results
Centralized reporting gives teams one place to review results from accessibility testing tools alongside other test information. Developers can identify and address issues before they progress further through the release process.
Supported WCAG and ADA
Perfecto supports WCAG accessibility testing and ADA website checkers to help organizations determine issues relevant to their accessibility requirements. They should form part of a broader compliance program rather than be treated as a certification of compliance.
Accessibility Testing Use Cases
Effective accessibility testing tools check the interface behaviors and content people depend on to navigate and use an application, including:
- Labels: Testing labels helps teams check whether technologies such as VoiceOver and TalkBack can interpret important controls and content.
- Text Contrast: Accessibility checks can surface contrast issues that make content harder to perceive on page.
- Touch Target: Touch target testing evaluates the area available for user interaction, which is relevant on mobile interfaces where users need to tap buttons accurately across different screen sizes and interaction needs.
- UI Hierarchy: Checking the view hierarchy identifies structural issues that interfere with accessible navigation.
- Dynamic Font Size: Dynamic font testing checks how an application responds when users increase text size, validating whether layouts continue to work when users adjust fonts.
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Put Accessibility Testing Into Your Regular Test Cycles
Use automation to increase coverage, identify accessibility issues earlier, support accessibility compliance testing, and give developers clearer test results to work from.
See how Perfecto works across mobile, web, and desktop testing, scriptless automation, AI-driven execution, and analytics in these guided demos.