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Tricentis Tosca - Accessibility testing

Run web accessibility testing early in your development

Transform your testing process with Tosca’s integrated web accessibility testing. You can reuse your regression tests for accessibility testing, helping teams catch potential issues early in development. Easily validate web applications’ accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.0 and AA measures, all while improving your application’s usability and expanding market access to diverse audiences.

Why is accessibility testing so important?

Inclusive user experience

Over 1 billion people, which is ~17% of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. Anyone can experience temporary or situational difficulty in seeing, hearing, and more. Accessibility testing ensures your product is usable by all, including those with disabilities, creating an inclusive user experience.

Legal compliance

There are multiple digital accessibility laws that mandate organizations to comply with making their websites or applications more accessible to people with disabilities. Coming 2025, the European Accessibility Act will subject organizations to audits and great scrutiny. Testing helps avoid legal repercussions and fines.

Broader market reach

The disability market controls over $13 trillion in disposable income. Accessibility testing allows businesses to cater to a wider audience, potentially increasing the access of their products and services by 4x of the intended audience. This helps drive higher revenue and improve customer loyalty.

Background

Challenges

Accessibility testing challenges

Manual testing

Challenge: The majority of teams check an application’s accessibility manually. This slows down release cycles and time-to-market.

 

Solution: Automated accessibility testing can help you catch issues early in development.

Lack of expertise

Challenge: Implementing accessibility testing may require knowledge of specific coding practices or technologies, which the team may not possess.

 

Solution: Codeless test automation helps any team member contribute to quality.

Rapid Agile cycles

Challenge: Fast, iterative cycles make it difficult to perform accessibility testing, leading to overlooked issues.

 

Solution: Embed automated accessibility testing into your existing portfolio, without rework.

Solutions

Test early and rapidly with automated accessibility testing

Reuse your existing test cases to run automated web accessibility tests much earlier in your development cycle. Tosca performs a complete check of the entire page and reports on violations. You can add accessibility checks on individual test steps, test cases, or entire end-to-end flows depending on you requirements.

Tosca identifies on average 57% of WCAG issues, including empty links, basic color contrast, missing alternative text, page title, ARIA labels, and more.

Test early and rapidly with automated accessibility testing

Be accessibility and compliant-ready

Teams can access execution reports to see critical, severe, and moderate issues found in your application’s accessibility. This enables teams to easily validate web applications and provide reporting for WCAG 2.0 and AA compliance measures.

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Easily identify ARIA controls implemented in screen readers

As the European Accessibility Act gears up for 2025, web applications will have to improve their accessibility readiness and increasingly implement ARIA semantics. Tosca is primed to support this shift through automated accessibility testing.

Assistive technologies such as screen readers depend on ARIA labels for vocalizing various controls such as buttons, fields, and text boxes. For developers and testers, it is therefore important to ensure ARIA labels are correctly implemented. With Tosca, you can scan and identify complex ARIA elements as readable, contextualized controls. This helps teams stabilize test automation while, in turn, contribute to accessibility testing.

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Easily identify ARIA controls implemented in screen readers

Features

Accessibility testing capabilities

Codeless automation

Tosca’s model-based approach means that testers and business users can easily perform automated accessibility testing without coding skills. This helps anyone contribute to building a more inclusive, digital world.

Reusability

Reuse your existing regression tests to run automated web accessibility tests. You can add test configuration parameters at the test step or test case folder level, helping teams easily organize and perform accessibility checks in each build.

ARIA support

Developers add ARIA labels to controls to help screen readers effectively read out in voice output what the control is. With Tosca, you can create, scan, and automate controls that contain ARIA semantics. This in turn helps screen readers easily read out controls in speech output.

Exploratory testing

Embed exploratory testing into your accessibility testing strategy. This looks at checking issues such as keyboard accessibility, accurate form labels, error messages, and consistent navigation as a normal user would.

Try it out today

With Tosca 2023.1, you can access the tech preview of our latest web accessibility testing feature. Try it out today and share your feedback with our product teams to help us innovate for the future.

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