Checklist for usability testing and identifying common ARIA patterns
Usability testing is an often understated part of your application, luckily its progressed leaps and bounds.
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No ARIA is better than bad ARIA
ARIA is often misused when making our code more accessible.
This is this updated page by W3 that gives us an overview of how to use ARIA and its pattern in our different components correctly. This is very important because misused ARIA will just make our page noisier for those who depend on screen readers.
The information that is provided must be concise and relevant.
I highly recommend checking out this page:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/
It gives a ton of information on the latest standard for using ARIA patterns.
Usability testing is when you check how a user actually uses the application. This is useful information because just making automated tests can miss out on a ton of things.
Critical paths for features
Confusing UI
Common use cases
Maria Rosala goes over a checklist that should be kept in mind while moderating these usability tests.
Highly recommend checking out the article.
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