When it comes to offering a digital space that is user-friendly and accessible, the pressure companies are facing is high. More than 1 billion people worldwide live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization.
Key Takeaways
- Companies must comply with laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure equal access for over 1 billion people with disabilities.
- Evinced addresses accessibility challenges by integrating with cloud-based testing platforms like Sauce Labs and Perfecto.
- Evinced Selenium SDK simplifies accessibility testing without altering individual test codes, offering detailed reports instead.
- The Evinced Mobile Flow Analyzer on Perfecto allows for easy scanning of mobile applications for accessibility issues with actionable reports.
- Evinced aims to create a digital world where all individuals have equal access, supporting developers in building accessible products.
Given the number of people with disabilities and the desire to ensure equal access to all, companies are faced with laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. This act guarantees that people with disabilities are not discriminated against.
But, as the public’s reliance on technology continues to grow and evolve, ensuring equal access to those with disabilities is proving difficult. This challenge is particularly seen with software. This is the story I’ve heard time and time again from founders and executives. They come to my team and me at Evinced, yearning for a solution. That is also why Evinced has integrated with top cloud-based automated testing platforms. We partnered with Sauce Labs and Perfecto to make our services seamless with customers.
What I’ve said to our customers and what I’ll say to everyone reading this is that implementing accessible software and solutions doesn’t have to be tedious.
Dipping into Accessibility with Sauce Labs
Evinced Selenium SDK on Sauce Labs, a cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform, is more effective than other accessibility tools because of the efficiency and quality. First, developers no longer need to alter individual test code. This eliminates a heavy lift for developers. They once had to modify developer-maintained tests, in effect creating a separate, unmanageable set of accessibility automation tests.
Instead, Evinced’s solution provides a single, detailed report at the conclusion of the tests. It contains every detail needed to understand any issues related to accessibility and how to fix those issues quickly. Unlike other tools that rely on syntax analysis, the Evinced Selenium SDK uses computer vision. It models the UX intent and compares it to the actual code implementation. This approach allows Evinced to find more critical a11y issues that were once only found with manual testing.
Evinced automatically provides all the insights needed to understand the accessibility problem and how to fix it. This includes screenshots, DOM snippets with suggestions on how to fix, as well as actual code examples on how to remediate the issue.
An Impeccable Solution for Perfecto
Evinced also runs on Perfecto, a cloud-based intelligent test automation platform. The first offering is the Evinced Mobile Flow Analyzer. This tool allows you to connect to a mobile device right from your desktop and scan any native mobile application for accessibility issues. Actionable reports are then created with one click. This allows for easier communication among developers. Developers, test engineers, and product managers appreciate this because access to source code isn’t required to detect accessibility issues.
Another solution that can be leveraged on Perfecto is the Evinced Appium SDK. It allows developers to pinpoint accessibility issues. The Evinced API goes beyond what the iOS and Android accessibility APIs offer. It helps employees find more issues that could be impacting the accessibility of an application. Having had the pleasure of wading through a sea of 20-plus reports created per test, full of duplicate issues, this is a feature I am very passionate about.
I’ve seen firsthand the impact Evinced’s software has had on individuals. Whether it’s the developer tasked with creating an accessible product or the end user who deserves equal access to a technological product. My team and I are committed to providing accessibility automation to enterprise developers. Our goal is to create a digital world where all people, regardless of their abilities, have equal access.
