Yahoo! Accessibility Lab's mobile application testing
Channel: YahooAccessibility
Date: 2011-08-01

Join us at the Web 2.0 Conference in New York, October 13, 2011 for Accessibility Testing in the Post View Source World
http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2011/public/schedule/detail/20374

In the good ol' days we could document accessibility bugs by detailing the offending HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. Copy and Paste were our best friends. But what do you do when dealing with an iPad application riddled with unlabeled buttons and empty web views?

The Yahoo! Accessibility Lab's team has been using a variety of multi-media techniques to ensure our mobile applications are as accessible as our web sites. Find out how we are using Flip cameras, ScreenFlow, Skype, and other multimedia tools to test our applications, document the bad experiences, and follow through on the bugs.

This has been especially helpful with engineering teams distributed across the United States, Europe, India, and Asia. Our bug response time has dropped significantly and products are being launched with greater accessibility.