Noah Mashni, CPACC’s Post

“The dramatic increase in the amount of accessibility testing performed in automation is not correlating to a proportional increase in the accessibility of the digital world.” ~ Noah Mashni, CPACC & Mark Steadman #TrueStory, unfortunately. Automating the discovery of bugs that never get solved (essentially infinite TTR*) results in an ever-growing mountain of accessibility bugs and little benefit for end users. This is why Assistiv Labs takes the approach with our end-to-end accessibility testing service of understanding our customers’ digital delivery processes and working closely with them to properly assign and prioritize our bugs to make them more likely to get resolved. For example, we meet regularly with the accessibility team at Asana to ensure our bug reporting fits into their existing processes so issues don’t land in product teams’ backlogs in a way that’s disruptive to the ways they usually work. The fact these bug reports are automated rather than on the cadence of manual audits means the responsible teams find out about them before attention decay** sets in. Our E2E service delivers audit-quality results at the speed of automation. That’s a bold claim, but one we stand by. *Time To Resolution **Our term for the tendency of developers to deprioritize work where they’re no longer in that context. https://lnkd.in/gTJN5ybs

Hello friends! I'm excited to drive the next chapter of the product team and I'm searching for my next product leader, Director of Product. If you're passionate about being the driving force of the growth and success of product managers (and the product team) and the intersection of social equality, product and technology at a global scale aligns to your personal and professional mission, then you're the one I'm looking for. #missiondriven #productleader

If you are heading out to CSUN Assistive Technology Conference (#CSUNATC23) this year, come check out my second talk with my good buddy Noah Mashni, CPACC titled 'So You've Automated Accessibility Testing... Now What?'  Automated accessibility testing has become the easy and efficient way to bring accessibility into the #development lifecycle.  However, now that more teams are using it, we've noticed an alarming trend. Teams claim to be "using" automated #A11y but they still have those same issues going to production over and over. The truth is, automated #Accessibility impact is limited unless we do not take action on results themselves. Quality gates and simple tool use can lead to a more accessible product downstream while keeping development velocity at the same level. Come check us out, Thursday March 16th at 11:20 PST https://lnkd.in/gUcErT8H