Quality Engineer (Tester) – accessibility @ perpendicular angel design

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Your accessibility responsibilities as a Quality Engineer

Understand that accessibility (like security and performance) is infrastructure that customers expect to have in place. If it’s missing, the product is not complete.
Ensure that products you test meet accessibility requirements.
Open defects against tests that fail accessibility requirements.

Testing the accessibility of any platform is a specialized part of functional testing. Like functional testing, it is a combination of automated and manual testing.
- Read The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing for an overview of both automated and manual testing considerations, and why both are necessary. (Note: this is a long article, give yourself roughly 20 minutes for it.)
Advocate for involving users with disabilities in accessibility testing.
- Read Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility by the W3C.
Become familiar with basic accessibility testing.
Use tools provided to test for accessibility using automated and manual testing
Know how to navigate content using your keyboard
Know how to navigate content using a screen reader
Ensure the general architecture hierarchy and content of the thing you’re testing makes sense
Ensure images, icons, and charts have alt text
Ensure decorative images are not visible to screen readers
Seek out and hire a diverse team including people who have disabilities
Learn about hidden content techniques to learn how to check for hidden content