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Automating Screen Readers for Accessibility Testing Automated accessibility testing is an essential component of a successful accessibility strategy, but traditional automated accessibility tools haven’t included screen readers. New tools are being dev...

We’ve invested a ton of effort into building out screen reader automation as part of our end-to-end accessibility testing service. And we’ve learned a ton along the way!

This article goes deep into the geeky details of why & how to automate screen readers. 🦾

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Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine Meet “Accessible UX Research,” our upcoming book to make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...

I'll buy an eBook copy of Accessible UX Research for the first five folks who are interested! I'll need an email address to send a copy to when it's published (currently in pre-order).

If you're into user research and disability, this book is for you. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

YouTube video by Wagtail How we use Assistiv Labs to test accessibility - thanks to their sponsoring of open source projects

Did you know Assistiv Labs offers a free-for-open-source plan? The good folks @wagtail.org use it to test their CMS using Windows screen readers. Our only requirement is the project is under a liberal license (e.g., MIT). Get in touch if this would be helpful to you!

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“I’m not talking about “ideal” or “optimized” – the bar is pretty low, so I’m just talking about something that works at all for people with a disability.” 💔

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine [Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning ...

ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...

Links to recordings of the webinar, with and without audio descriptions, are available in the FAQ section of our page about the end-to-end testing service.

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The course includes:

- 15+ hrs of video content (~2 full-day workshops)
- 40+ chapters available in both video and text
- Accessibility toolkit
- Buy once, access forever
- Complementary free, 6-months unlimited access to
@assistivlabs.com

+ all up-and-coming updates

This webinar was by far our most in-depth public discussion of our end-to-end testing service. This should be of interest to any accessibility leaders who are interested in doubling the WCAG coverage of their automated accessibility testing.

So cute! 😍

We’ll post a version of the video with audio descriptions early next week. 💜

YouTube video by Assistiv Labs Accessibility First End-to-end Testing – Webinar – Assistiv Labs

Our first webinar is in the books! 🙌 Such a great time talking through our accessibility-first end-to-end testing platform. Thanks to those who showed up live and here’s the recording for anyone else who couldn’t make it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh6n...

Super excited for this! Should be interesting for the test automation nerds 🤓 but also everyone just looking for a smarter way to validate the #accessibility of their digital products. Join us! 💜

If you've never used Assistiv Labs I recommend joining this Webinar if you can especially if you have a Practical Accessibility course account and haven't used your complementary Assistiv Labs access yet and are unsure how to use it in your work.👇

End-to-end Accessibility Testing - Assistiv Labs Instantly test with real screen readers, magnifiers, and more. Make sure your websites and apps are accessible.

We want the webinar to be as useful as possible for folks, so let us know what questions you have about our end-to-end testing service and we’ll do our best to address them!

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two girls are sitting on a yellow couch and one has a smiley face shirt on Alt: Carly & Harper from iCarly sitting on a couch, fist bumping

Date/time: Weds, May 7 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC

Platform: Zoom with auto-captioning & transcripts enabled (we’ll post the recording to our YouTube channel afterwards with corrected captions and audio descriptions); please let us know if you would benefit from any additional accommodations!

Sign me up! Assistiv Labs will demo our accessibility-first end-to-end testing platform. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern / 18:00 UTC. Here’s what we’ll c...

Your friends at Assistiv Labs are hosting our first ever webinar on May 7! 🥳 We’ll be talking about our approach to auditing & monitoring websites for accessibility using our end-to-end testing platform.

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The Practical Accessibility Course A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

If you’re a design engineer, a designer, a front-end developer, a JavaScript developer, or a back-end developer, Sara Soueidan's "Practical Accessibility" can give you the essential knowledge you need to gain a deep understanding of accessibility.

practical-accessibility.today

I took my time over months to complete this course, really enjoyed how it was organized into but sized chapters to make that slow but steady progress easier.

It's a ton of great content and so so worth it, the fact that it also checked some CAECs off my list was a great bonus.

YouTube video by Kevin Powell Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement

Kevin Powell has an #accessibility intro video:
“Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement”
youtu.be/pJ0GPI7BMIs

Not for practitioners; not new stuff.

This is for folks who are new to it, who learn better with videos, who know his name and will believe him more than us, etc.

#a11y

Working with @assistivlabs.com was such a fun project!! And now you can all fall in love with their robo mascot like we did.

I’m in love with the new look, tbh 😍

We’d love to hear what you think of the new look! And, should we name our little robot friend?!

We worked with @oddi-jessica.bsky.social late last year to finalize the new look and literally hit the “merge” button a few minutes ago. If you can, hire Jess!

Assistiv Labs Instantly test with real screen readers, magnifiers, and more. Make sure your websites and apps are accessible.

Excited to have just pushed out a wee refresh of the Assistiv Labs brand! 🤩

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Weren’t aware of that one. Thanks for sharing!

Hey, team! Question for the #accessibility practitioners out there: What accessibility-focused conferences do you all find most worthwhile?

Ready for #accessibility automation that’s not just 3 axe-cores in a trench coat?

End-to-end testing leveled up the way Asana engineers think about accessibility Before partnering with Assistiv Labs, Asana’s accessibility team generally grouped testing into two categories: automated and manual. Assistiv Labs’ end-to-end accessibility testing service has helped...

Before partnering with us, Asana’s #accessibility team generally grouped testing into 2 categories: automated and manual. Our end-to-end accessibility testing service helped redefine the distinction. Because the feedback loops are shorter, bugs are resolved faster.

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Creating accessibility systems to fix accessibility issues How do we make impactful accessibility change that better integrates into what we’re already doing? The answer is to create systems around accessibility work, instead of treating it like a barrier or ...

Does it ever seem like the more you do towards #accessibility the more friction you encounter? 😬

Our friend @devonpersing.bsky.social is here to help! We just published her article on how to make accessibility easier to do than not by creating systems. #SmartMove

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