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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Jun 12, 2018 12:15PM

I would suggest looking at the most recent blog entry for Karl Groves' site: http://www.karlgroves.com/blog/

I think the best way to help people understand the issue might be by explaining to them some of the success criteria and other accessibility issues that need to be considered in testing. Just like Karl does in his article.

I suspect there is also another reason why we likely will never be able to automate testing for accessibility. Accessibility testing involves testing the human-computer interactions. While we can predict what the computer does, we still can't fully predict how humans will think about or do things and a big part of accessibility involves communicating with people in a way they can perceive and understand as well as making it possible for them to interact with the interface in a way that is meaningful and possible for them. It is difficult to write automated tests when some of the variables are unpredictable or not completely known.