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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 12, 2018 2:26AM

What industry standards are you referring to? My view is that one skilled person is perfectly capable of conducting a comprehensive WCAG audit. As long as they are proficient in the use of screen readers and have substantial experience of user testing with screen reader users (and ideally people with a wide range of other disabilities an access needs) there is no need to involve anyone else in the audit.

That said, user testing with screen reader users and people with other disabilities an access needs always raises other issues, but these generally do not correspond to WCAG success criteria. This assumes that a WCAG audit has already been done and all the issues have been fixed before the user testing.

Unfortunately, my experience from interviewing numerous candidates and working with contractors, is that most are not proficient in the use of screen readers and few have any substantial experience of user testing. In the short term they clearly need support from a second person but the real fix is to get the training and user testing experience they need.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd