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Dennis Deacon

Testing Methods: Focus Visible

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A visible focus indicator is essential for accessible navigation. Combining automated, AI-based, and manual testing ensures focus states are perceivable, consistent, and user-centered, transforming WCAG 2.4.7 compliance into a hallmark of inclusive, high-quality design.

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Testing Methods: Multiple Ways

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WCAG 2.4.5 Multiple Ways ensures users can access content through multiple navigation paths. A hybrid testing approach, combining automated, AI, and manual methods, provides a thorough, user-centered evaluation, enhancing accessibility, usability, and inclusivity across websites.

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Testing Methods: Focus Order

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WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order ensures keyboard users can navigate web content in a logical, predictable sequence. Combining automated, AI-based, and manual testing delivers both compliance and a smooth, intuitive experience that supports accessibility for all users.

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Testing Methods: Page Titled

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WCAG 2.4.2 Page Titled ensures every page has a clear, descriptive title to support accessibility and usability. A hybrid testing approach, combining automated, AI-based, and manual review, ensures titles exist, are meaningful, consistent, and enhance navigation for all users.

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Testing Methods: Timeouts

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WCAG 2.2.6 Timeouts ensures users are warned before inactivity leads to data loss. It supports those who need extra time to complete tasks and promotes inclusive design. A hybrid testing approach, automated, AI-based, and manual, best ensures compliance and real user protection.

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Testing Methods: Interruptions

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WCAG 2.2.4 Interruptions (Level AAA) ensures users can control or disable nonessential alerts, reducing distractions and improving focus. A hybrid testing approach, combining automation, AI, and manual review, offers the most effective path to achieving true accessibility and user respect.

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Testing Methods: No Timing

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WCAG 2.2.3 No Timing ensures users aren’t limited by time when interacting with content. A Level AAA criterion, it promotes inclusivity by allowing users to pause, stop, or extend timers. A hybrid of automated, AI, and manual testing best ensures accessibility for all.

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Testing Methods: Timing Adjustable

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WCAG 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable ensures users can turn off, extend, or adjust time limits, or that limits are justified. Automated, AI, and manual testing together ensure time controls are practical, inclusive, and accessible, giving all users, especially those with disabilities, adequate time to interact.

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