Accessibility Testing: Best Practices

Accessibility testing requires more than an automated scanner. A scanner catches roughly 30-50% of WCAG issues. The rest requires manual testing with a keyboard, a screen reader, and a process that covers every state of the application. This guide is tool-agnostic. Whether the team uses Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or another framework, the practices apply. Tool-specific implementation guides are linked at the end. The compliance landscape has shifted. Over 5,000 accessibility lawsuits were fi