Overview
The Accessibility Persona evaluates your project’s adherence to accessibility standards and best practices. It tests how well your digital experience meets recognized guidelines, such as WCAG, Section 508 specifications, and other accessibility frameworks, identifying issues that could prevent users from accessing content and interacting with features effectively.
How to use the Accessibility Persona
Accessing the Configuration Page
Go to your Project.
Open the Personas Catalog.
Locate the Accessibility Persona card.
Click on the card itself or the Configure button.
You will then be redirected to the Accessibility Persona configuration page, where you can view its details, set preferences, and adjust testing options.
Accessibility Form Details
Accessibility Standard / Compliance Target:
A set of guidelines and criteria that a digital product must meet to ensure accessibility for all users. Common standards include WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), EN 301 549 for ICT products in the EU, and Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. These standards define requirements for perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust content across devices and assistive technologies.
Testing Tool:
The Testing Tool defines which automated accessibility engine the Accessibility Persona will use to evaluate your project.
Minimum Severity to Report:
Specifies the lowest level of issue severity that the persona will report. For instance, if set to High, the persona will only report issues classified as High or Critical, ignoring lower-severity issues.
Minimum Severity to fail execution:
Defines the lowest severity level that will cause the execution to stop and to be marked as failed. For example, if set to High, only issues of High or Critical severity will fail the execution, while lower-severity issues will not.
Reporting Mode:
Specifies how accessibility issues are communicated during testing.
Testing workflow
Start Test Case: Run a test case with the Accessibility Persona enabled.
Monitor URL Changes: As the test navigates through different pages, the persona tracks each URL change.
Analyze Webpages: On every page, the persona evaluates accessibility based on its configured standards and rules.
Generate Reports: For each page visited, the persona creates a report highlighting any accessibility issues detected.
Execution Failures: If the Minimum Severity to fail execution is reached, the execution will stop.
Accessibility Report
For each URL analyzed, an Accessibility Report is generated.
To access this report:
Click on the Test Step.
Click on View Accessibility Report button.
A card will appear, containing a summary of the scan with a button to download a PDF Report.
Example of the downloaded PDF:
