Testing and Auditing Services

We understand the reality that products might touch dozens or even hundreds of hands before they are released to the general public. We’re speaking your language—whether it’s legal, development, research, compliance, or another dialect entirely.

Our Accessibility Audits Include:

Accessibility reviews using assistive technology and automated testing tools
Testing conducted using teams of engineers with and without disabilities
Section 508 VPAT® creation–
Using specific language preferred by government agencies
W3C WCAG 2.1
CVAA reviews and audits
Comprehensive gap analysis reporting on accessibility deficiencies
Remediation recommendations
Access to our collection of “Best Practices”
VPAT® comparison analysis

IT Testing Services Include:

Websites and Web Applications
Software Applications
Mobile Applications
Hardware Devices (including servers, printers, monitors, etc.)
Telecommunications Products
Convergence devices (combined hardware and software)
Cloud computing

We familiarize ourselves with your organization and technology, discuss future opportunities to incorporate accessibility innovation, and construct an audit plan customized to your products. During every audit, our strategy revolves around you, your product, and the role of accessibility. We are subject matter experts with superior technical knowledge and experience. During the testing phase, our accessibility engineers utilize assistive technology devices and automated testing tools to execute our three-step testing plan.

Our plan pivots around three crucial areas:

Crafting innovative and practical IT audit plans to support accessibility for your products;
Reporting accessibility deficiencies constructively with comprehensive deliverables;
Manufacturing recommendations to improve accessibility in future developments.

In executing this plan, we use screen readers, screen magnifiers, refreshable Braille displays, speech recognition software, and other assistive technologies to determine how a person with a disability will interact and engage with your product. While we do use automated testing tools to find high volume, low-risk accessibility issues, we promote manual testing to ensure a complete, accurate, audit.

Delivered at the end of every audit is a comprehensive gap analysis report identifying all of the accessibility deficiencies along with detailed recommendations. Our reports drive the creation of accessibility documents, including the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT®). These documents, which record your product’s compliance to Section 508, help drive procurement and sales, whether by the Federal government or by public consumers.

Working together with you, Accessibility Partners increases the marketability of your products to the huge, and demographically-diverse, group of users with disabilities.

Is your product or service as marketable and accessible as it can be? We can help you find out!