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Monthly "Testing Websites with Users with Disabilities" sessions

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  • Author: Jill Wolters

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Monthly Testing with Users with Disabilities sessions start in July.

These sessions focus on Assistive Technology (AT) users and are twofold. 1) to create awareness and, 2) to provide a discovery opportunity for barriers to content.

Every second Wednesday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. we host a demo of a UCSF website tested by a native user of AT. You may get the opportunity to see online barriers encountered. You must sign-up to attend

Awareness

Get an introduction to AT. Gain awareness of why to make online content accessible to all users. Not familiar with screen reader assistive technology? Watch our 5-minute screen reader demo.

 

Discovery

Accessibility checks may reveal:

  • missing or inappropriate image descriptions,
  • incorrect heading structure,
  • data tables missing headers,
  • missing data visualization interaction,
  • and reading order issues.
A dark skinned wheelchair user with long hair and a beanie sits at a small table, using their laptop to participate in a video meeting. The laptop screen is shown to their right, with the call being live captioned. The main speaker is a dark skinned person wearing a hijab and glasses, and 3 other participants are at the bottom of the screen, in smaller windows. In the bottom right corner, a yellow service dog bounds towards the wheelchair user.

Audience

Those interested in digital accessibility.

Participation

You must sign-up to attend. (Requires MyAccess login.) The Zoom details will follow soon in a calendar invite.

To request an accommodation for this event, please contact Jill Wolters by email at [email protected] or phone at 415-514-2941 as soon as possible.

To inquire about featuring your website at a future meeting, contact Jill Wolters, Web Standards Program Manager.

Illustration credit: "On A Video Call" by Dana Chan for Disabled And Here. The Disabled And Here collection is published under Creative Commons attribution licensing, which means you can use, share, and adapt the images for free with appropriate credit.