Accessibility Test Workshop

The Accessibility Test Workshop is designed to help organisations measure and evaluate their readiness to meet the European Accessibility Act which will actively be enforced from June 2025 onwards.

Although the Act itself was  first adopted in 2019, the 2025 deadline is when the related laws will come into effect. 

The act requires, among other accessibility guidelines, apps and websites  from private companies and governmental institutes to adhere to the principles of accessibility in alignment with WCAG standards. Those are captured under the abbreviation “POUR”: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.

Our 1-day workshop provides insight into the guidelines and requirements while taking you through the definitions of accessibility, teaching you how setup the governance to audit your own environment, how best to  apply the appropriate non-functional testing approach and let you experience how tooling can support your readiness check.

On completion of this workshop, you will

• Understand the principles of Accessibility Testing
• Know how to perform web accessibility tests on software projects based off the Expleo Accessibility Test Approach
• Know the Expleo Method to report on an accessibility test and identify the key information
• Be able to apply the accessibility test methodology to real-life projects
• Have hands-on experience of completing accessibility tests

Part 1 – Setting the scene and introduction

• Introduction to Accessibility
• Testing approach and Tools
• Tool demonstration
• Document accessibility

Part 2 – Planning & doing

• Planning and reporting
• Practical application workshop
• Accessibility statements
• Audits

There are no specific prerequisites for this course.

This Accessibility Test workshop  is appropriate for  a diverse group of experts and leaders both from the business side (design and validation) as well as from IT (Implementation).

It helps all to get a better understanding of the current state of their app and website landscape and how to improve and comply to the laws coming into place.

Typical roles that benefit from our workshop are Project Managers, Quality Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and Test specialists.