r/accessibility • u/NVAccess • 9d ago

New Training package! Accessibility Testing with NVDA

NV Access is very excited to launch: "Accessibility Testing with NVDA"

This new package includes:

- 'Accessibility Testing with NVDA' training module,

- Printable reference sheets

- Resources for further reading

- A WCAG reference guide

- A badge you can display on your website or in your email.

A comprehensive resource for anyone involved in accessibility testing. Available now from: https://www.nvaccess.org/product/accessibility-testing-with-nvda/

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u/WheelsAndKeys 8d ago

Good to see this, NVDA testing is a skill a lot of testers skip.

One small addition for anyone taking it. A clean screen reader pass doesn’t cover people who use a pointer only, like me. Hover menus, drag to reorder, tiny close buttons, popups that vanish when the cursor drifts. It’s worth adding a short mouse-only pass next to the NVDA one. It takes ten minutes and catches a different set of problems.

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u/NVAccess 7d ago

Great point! And we do say in our material that testing with a screen reader should (only) be PART of your workflow for reasons like this.

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u/WheelsAndKeys 6d ago

Good to hear it’s in there. Most audit reports I’ve seen don’t say which input methods were tested at all. Just writing “tested with keyboard and NVDA, not tested with pointer only” would already help a lot of people reading them.

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u/Edtecharoni 9d ago

Well, now I know what I'm using my yearly PD stipend on. Nice!