Chapter 6. Evaluating and Testing

If you don’t test whether your accessibility efforts work, there’s not much point in making the effort in the first place. Without testing, we can’t tell how our site will hold up when used by real people. The success of a product will depend on whether the target audience is able to achieve their goals via their chosen technologies. These goals can therefore be used as success criteria against which the product can be tested.

Making a Plan

Whenever you test or evaluate a product, you should do it against a test plan. A test plan will help you make sure you get something out of your tests, whether you’re doing a formal test against ...

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