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Re: accessibility without testing?

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Mar 13, 2008 8:50AM

> It has always been my understanding that in order to consistently create accessible pages, particularly pages which are accessible to screen reader users, it is necessary to conduct testing with assistive technology. I.E. before you can say for sure something is accessible, someone has to go check. Is this view accurate? Is there a more automated way of ensuring accessibility that I'm unaware of?
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Would you release a Japanese version of your site without having a
native speaker have a read-through?

Accessibility is a human interaction matter, not a technical problem.
Automated testing tools can flag up *big* technical issues but cannot
tell you about semantic problems or wrong text.