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A Comprehensive Exploration of Automated vs. Manual Accessibility Testing

In our previous post, Understanding the Importance of Digital Accessibility, we explored the factors driving the dramatic increase in focus and attention on web accessibility over the last few years by both users and companies. Today, web accessibility is no longer a choice but a necessity for companies. 

As such, accessibility testing is crucial in identifying and eliminating barriers that hinder users with disabilities from accessing and interacting with websites. While manual testing has been the traditional approach, automated testing has emerged as a valuable tool in recent years. This post delves into the strengths, weaknesses, and potential applications of automatic and manual accessibility testing.

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Web Accessibility Testing: A Necessity for Digital Equality

Today, websites and applications are vital tools for communication, commerce, education, and more. Ensuring that these digital platforms are accessible to everyone, regardless of disability or impairment, is both a social responsibility and a business imperative for companies in the digital economy.  Web accessibility and accessibility testing are a cornerstone, ensuring that everyone, including individuals with disabilities, can effectively perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with digital content. However, achieving comprehensive web accessibility is not without its challenges. 

In this article, we explore accessibility testing, why it’s essential, its challenges for companies and digital product teams, and the benefits of incorporating web accessibility testing into your organization’s application development lifecycle. 

Web Accessibility Challenges

Let’s delve into some common challenges organizations face in pursuing web accessibility. Understanding and overcoming these challenges is crucial to incorporating web accessibility into your application design, development, and testing processes.

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Test Automation vs. Autonomous Testing

The software testing space saw a paradigm shift in testing methodologies from manual to test automation with the new technologies. Digitization certainly comes with benefits, such as increased productivity; at the same time, it also results in the complexity of applications. Fintech applications are the best examples of banking services to complex app-based applications. The challenge is to provide the most satisfactory customer experience on these applications and perform well. Software testing is the game-changer and will play a vital role in this fast-paced DevOps world. It would be difficult for organizations to retain the best possible customer experience while delivering faster products to the market with traditional test automation approaches.

Let's understand more about test automation and how it is inadequate in handling new age practices and customer expectations.

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Software Testing Trends to Win in 2022

Due to the pandemic, the adoption of digital technologies has been phenomenal across the verticals and horizontals.

As per a survey conducted by McKinsey & Company, responses to COVID-19 have only sped up the adoption of digital technologies by several years — and many of these changes could be here for the long haul.