Methodology

Human-centered validation beyond compliance scanners.

Automated tools are useful, but accessibility depends on how real people move through real interfaces. Our methodology combines scanning, manual testing, workflow review, and structured reporting.

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The automated gap

Scanners can identify many code-level problems, but they cannot fully understand task completion, cognitive load, focus behavior, confusing interactions, or whether an experience is usable.

  • Keyboard access and focus visibility
  • Meaningful headings, landmarks, and structure
  • Forms, labels, helper text, and error recovery
  • Modal/dialog behavior and escape paths
  • Responsive and zoom behavior
Review process

Structured steps keep findings clear and actionable.

Define scope

Identify key pages, templates, workflows, forms, and user journeys to review.

Run automated checks

Use tooling to surface common failures and establish a first pass issue baseline.

Perform manual validation

Test keyboard navigation, focus order, labels, states, modals, contrast, and screen reader-aware patterns.

Prioritize findings

Group issues by impact, severity, frequency, and remediation effort.

Deliver remediation guidance

Provide executive summaries and developer-ready notes that turn findings into next actions.

Severity model

Findings are grouped by user impact.

Severity is based on practical barriers such as blocked task completion, inaccessible form submission, missing programmatic names, keyboard traps, unreadable content, or confusing navigation.

LevelMeaningAction
CriticalBlocks access or task completionFix first
ModerateCreates friction or confusionPlan fix
AdvisoryImprovement opportunityReview

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