Digital accessibility testing is the practice of testing websites, web applications, mobile applications, or similar digital products to verify that they are accessible to individuals with physical or cognitive impairments and can be accessed fully using assistive technology. Digital accessibility cannot be tested for accurately with the use of tools alone and requires manual testing since much of WCAG is subjective and dependent on human judgment.

The most effective way to test for digital accessibility is through a combination of automated and manual testing. For manual testing, it is critical to test using assistive technologies that users interact with and to include individuals with physical and cognitive impairments in the testing process.

Digital accessibility practices provide a way for everyone to have equal access to information and digital content, something becoming increasingly important as the internet becomes a bigger part of our lives. Regardless of physical or cognitive impairment, you should have equal access. Beyond that, digital accessibility practices have been proven to have many secondary benefits for organizations, including opening up new markets (with the more than one billion people who have a physical or cognitive impairment), improving usability for everyone, differentiating your product or service versus others, and more. Accessibility is great for your organization and your users.

Whether your project is just begining or is post-release, hiring functional testers is a great way to meet deadlines when its crunch-time or make sure that with each new release everything is going according to plan so no matter the version, your product always comes out being it's best version.

Gem Software Studios specializes in web development including but not limited to websites and APIs (SOAP and REST). We also are equally capable in the realm of server-side development such as assisting in architecting email servers, web servers, and databases.

Upon completion of accessibility testing or function testing projects, we will provide a comprehensive VPAT report. VPAT stands for Voluntary Product Assessment Template. A VPAT is a report which provides a requirement-by-requirement breakdown of a product’s accessibility compliance to standards like WCAG, Section 508, and EN 301 549. The VPAT report was authored by the US Federal Government and is quickly becoming the industry standard for accessibility compliance reports.

Upon completion of development projects, you can expect a turnkey solution within compliance of accessibility standards including but not limited to WCAG, Section 508, and EN 301 549. Documentation on project specifics, deliverables and code will also be provided.