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Re: Making mobile view available to all as way of constraining a11y testing costs

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jan 5, 2018 3:53PM

Anybody got a list of crawling accessibility testing tools that *do* let
you run tests at different viewport sizes? Our current tool lacks that
feature, which is really absurd, at this point, I think.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > The issue of automated tests is interesting. I don't find automated
> tools particularly useful so my experience of them is relatively limited,
> but I was surprised to find that SortSite gave exactly the same results on
> a recent project regardless of the viewport dimensions. For instance, it
> reported non-compliances that only occurred in the mobile layout even
> though the desktop layout was being displayed.
>
> Our AMP platform allows you to specify some different devices when
> crawling a site so the headless browser can use different viewport widths
> and thus perform automated spider testing at several different
> breakpoints. The browser based automated tool Access Assistant tests
> currently what is visible in the browser -- so it will test at the
> breakpoint displayed.
>
> > I had never thought about this before and I'm not sure if this is a
> serious fault or not. I also don't know if other tools do the same. One
> definite downside is that it reports duplicate IDs even if only one of the
> two elements is displayed at any time (the other being hidden with
> display:none).
>
> Duplicate ids even when hidden are something that need to be checked for.
> That is because aria-labelledby and aria-describedby can reference content
> that is display:none.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Jonathan Avila
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