Smashing Magazine: 'How To Bake Layers Of Accessibility Testing Into Your Process'

April 27, 2021

I co-authored an article with Kate Kalcevich who is the Head of Services at Fable about accessibility testing.

How To Bake Layers Of Accessibility Testing Into Your Process introduces "layered accessibility testing" to readers. This is a practice of using a variety of tools and approaches at different stages in the digital product lifecycle to catch accessibility issues early — when it's easier and cheaper to fix them.

Using the metaphor of a layered cake, Mike and Kate highlight how teams can gather the ingredients that they need to build accessible products and services.

Mike Gifford is a CivicActions Accessibility team member and a Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer. He has been actively involved in the accessibility unconference community and founder of Ottawa's A11yYOW meetup. He's also a certified IAAP WAS (Web Accessibility Specialist) and has completed the DHS Section 508 Standards for Web certification.