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From: Vsevolod Popov
Date: Mar 4, 2021 6:50AM

Hello,

Thank you for your tip.

As the beginner q/a I find it a little bit easier to start testing with
axe or microsoft accessibility insights which uses the same automatic
testing tools that axe uses,

because it gives me confidence if I correctly understand problems that
are present on the page.

Of course I scan the page with the screen reader before running the
utility. But utilities can give a little bit more understanding of the
concrete issue.

But I would also like to know how to complete the full manual testing.

Thank you!

04.03.2021 14:25, Steve Green пишет:
> Although it's not strictly relevant to this discussion, I strongly recommend the exact opposite. In most contexts, I advocate conducting a full manual test first, and only then use an automated tool as a safety net.
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> The rationale, which I have observed in practice, is that the automated tool results adversely affect how people do the manual testing. They miss issues the tool didn't report, perhaps because there is a subliminal voice telling them there's nothing wrong there. They tend to report issues exactly as the tool reported them, even if the tool misdiagnosed them, which is not uncommon. This shouldn't happen, but it does.
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> Best regards,
> Vsevolod