#31 Shifting Accessibility Testing to the Left
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In light of the recent announcement of lockdown restrictions being extended, we thought it would be a great opportunity to squeeze in another online meetup, before, (we hope) to get back to a mix of face to face and online meetups and finally get eating pizza together again in person!
We are excited to welcome back a familiar face. Some of you might remember Marie from one of our first online lockdown meetups last year where she gave us a brilliant introduction to Cypress. We loved having her so much that we invited her back and this time she will be talking to us all about accessibility testing!
We will also have another Amazon Voucher giveaway courtesy of the lovely folk over at SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment.
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Talk title: Shifting Accessibility Testing to the Left
For most companies, accessibility testing is still seen as an afterthought and there is often a misconception that testing for accessibility is difficult and time-consuming.
We know that there's a lot of benefits in making your website or application accessible, especially in the Digital Era, but why do we still have a lot of inaccessible websites?
In this talk, Marie Drake will discuss some of the myths around accessibility testing, how you can shift accessibility testing to the left and how you can easily integrate it into your development and testing workflows.
Marie is currently a Quality Engineering Manager at Zoopla and also a tech blogger at mariedrake.com. She is a Cypress Ambassador, co-organiser of the Cypress UK meetup group, an accessibility advocate and an online course instructor. Previously, she worked as a Principal Test Automation Engineer at News UK.
The meetup will be hosted on Crowdcast. Here's the link
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/shifting-accessibility
The plan for :
19:00 Introduction with Sam
19:05 Marie Drake
Followed by Q&A
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If you aren't already part of the South West Test slack community, don't forget to join our group for in-between meetup chat 💬
https://join.slack.com/t/southwesttest/shared_invite/zt-6nbv7cea-b7qKUk9DdPwRCtJsNCUETA
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#31 Shifting Accessibility Testing to the Left