In this week's episode of Coding QA, Mark and Jim sit down once again with fellow team member Clay Compton to discuss Accessibility testing. Clay's been in charge of this area for years on the ASP.NET team.  Listen in as he shares his experience and discusses:

 

• What does "accessible" mean for software?
• How did Clay become an expert in accessibility testing?
• Why should you care about software accessibility?
• Section 508 compliance and the US government
• Accessibility testing tools
• Interesting accessibility bugs

 

Links from the show:

Resources
 

Microsoft Accessibility Portal

MSDN Accessibility Overview

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Portal

WebAIM

AbleGamers

Tools
 

Windows 7 Software Development Toolkit

Paciello Group Colour Contrast Analyser

PEAT (Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool)

AccChecker