Usable by all. Better for business.
Around one in five people lives with a permanent or temporary disability. Accessibility widens your audience and improves satisfaction – and since the European Accessibility Act it's also required. A green Lighthouse score alone isn't enough, as we learned on our own website.
- From automated analysis (Lighthouse & axe) to a real screen-reader test with a blind user.
- How we honestly raised our accessibility score from 92 to 97 – and why the last points are the hardest.
- Three concrete findings that no automated test would have caught.
Tested with a blind user (JAWS screen reader) · WCAG 2.1 AA · guided by a certified UX designer
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The process in six steps
From automated scan to a test with a blind user – condensed in the whitepaper.
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Starting point
Understand project & goal
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Automated analysis
Lighthouse & axe
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Prioritisation
By impact & effort
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Screen-reader test
With a blind user
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Scope & execution
Run real flows
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Results
Fix the findings
We don't just talk about accessibility – we test it.
For our own website we asked a blind user to test us with the JAWS screen reader – someone who has worked with it daily for over 20 years. A green score doesn't tell you whether a site is genuinely usable. That's exactly the gap we documented, self-critically.
Navigation & focus
fixedThe keyboard focus jumped around the page illogically. We corrected the DOM order and focus flow and added a visible focus indicator.
Form fields
fixedFields were announced only as 'input field'. Now every label is correctly linked to its field.
Success message
in progressThe confirmation after submitting wasn't read out automatically. Implementing it as a live region that is announced immediately is in progress.
A single test doesn't replace a full audit. But it pinpoints where score and reality diverge – and delivers the most valuable insights first.
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