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A Practical Approach to Automated Accessibility Testing

Improving an application or websites accessibility can be a daunting task. I stumbled upon this article about how to leverage automation in the development lifecycle to help improve accessibility. Automated accessibility testing isn't a substitute for user testing, but it will reduce the effort needed and highlight accessibility issues much earlier in the development lifecycle.


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The use of automated accessibility tools has gained massive popularity for its ability to quickly and seamlessly get development teams to test for accessibility. One problem however, is that each day it seems like there is a new automated accessibility tool that is being touted or talked about. This has made the concept of using automation a bit fuzzy and somewhat difficult to navigate as to how to best use accessibility automation. It has even driven some development teams to say that automation isn't practical since there are so many options!

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