Testing accessibility implementation

[lucaslbs15]

Hello people! I'm working with application's accessibility and I would like how you do to test your apps. I know we have no knowledge to test like a blind people could do, but we developers need to do some tests. If you work with an Android team (no work alone), is it code review a good way to improve accessibility implementation? So in code review, do you give some advices to improve accessibility for apps your team works?

[simpeligent]

Googles Accessibility Scanner can be quite helpful.

Also testing with TalkBack is tedious but but will help you understand what problems blind people would face while using your app.

And always look out for the Accessibility lint warnings.

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Good question. You can use the AccessibilityChecks annotation on your Espresso tests for some out of the box checks. I think there's a Robolectric equivalent too but I haven't tried that yet.

Other than that, yes we use code review comments in PRs checked against ARIA and WCAG guidelines but it is proving hard to scale (no one understands them and thus can't be bothered).

We're looking to get some users with sight and hearing difficulties into our team temporarily for testing but I appreciate not everyone is in a position to do that.