WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 compliance testing to ensure your application is usable by everyone — including users with visual, motor, cognitive, and auditory disabilities. Automated scanning plus expert manual testing.
Over 1 billion people worldwide live with some form of disability. Accessibility testing ensures your application works for all of them — and protects your organisation from legal risk in markets with accessibility legislation.
Beyond compliance — it is the right thing to do: An inaccessible website excludes a significant portion of potential users from accessing your product entirely. Users who rely on screen readers, keyboard navigation, high-contrast modes, or voice control software encounter barriers on poorly designed applications that sighted, mouse-using users never notice. Making your application accessible removes those barriers and makes your product genuinely usable by a wider audience.
Legal risk is real: Accessibility legislation is expanding globally. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been applied to websites in the US. The European Accessibility Act requires accessibility compliance for digital products in EU markets from 2025. The UK Equality Act and Pakistan's Accessibility Standards also impose obligations on digital services. Failing an accessibility audit by a regulator or facing a legal complaint is significantly more costly than fixing accessibility issues proactively.
At 360 Fahrenheit, our accessibility testing combines automated WCAG scanning tools with expert manual testing — including actual screen reader usage — to give you comprehensive coverage that automated tools alone cannot provide. We test against WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the standard minimum, with WCAG 2.2 and Level AAA testing available for organisations with higher compliance requirements. We serve software teams across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the United States.
WCAG is organised around four core principles — every accessibility requirement traces back to one of these. Our testing ensures your application meets all four.
All information and interface components must be presentable in ways users can perceive. This covers alt text for images, captions for video, sufficient colour contrast, and content that doesn't rely solely on colour to convey meaning.
All interface components and navigation must be operable by users who cannot use a mouse. Full keyboard navigability, no time limits that trap users, no content that causes seizures, and clear navigation mechanisms are required.
Information and UI operation must be understandable. This covers readable text, predictable page behaviour, clear error identification and correction guidance, and consistent navigation patterns throughout the application.
Content must be robust enough to be reliably interpreted by a wide variety of assistive technologies, including current and future user agents. Proper HTML semantics and valid ARIA attributes are the foundation of a robust accessible application.
We test against the most commonly required WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria — the standard required by most accessibility legislation and procurement requirements.
All images, icons, and non-text elements have descriptive alt text
Text has minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio against its background
Text can be resized to 200% without loss of content or functionality
All functionality is operable via keyboard without requiring specific timing
Focus order preserves meaning and operability through logical tab sequence
Keyboard focus indicator is clearly visible at all times
Input errors are identified clearly and described to the user in text
All UI components have correctly programmed name, role, and state via ARIA
A complete accessibility audit combining automated scanning with expert manual testing — including real screen reader usage that automated tools cannot replicate.
We run comprehensive automated accessibility scans using axe-core, WAVE, and Lighthouse against every page and component of your application. Automated tools efficiently identify clear violations — missing alt text, insufficient colour contrast, missing form labels, invalid ARIA attributes — across your entire application in a fraction of the time manual testing alone would take.
We test your application with real screen readers — NVDA and JAWS on Windows, VoiceOver on macOS and iOS, and TalkBack on Android. Automated tools cannot replicate the actual screen reader user experience. We verify that all content is read in a logical order, interactive elements are properly announced, dynamic content changes are communicated, and modal dialogs manage focus correctly.
Complete keyboard-only navigation testing — verifying that every interactive element is reachable via Tab, that focus order follows logical reading order, that focus is never trapped in a component, that all actions achievable with a mouse are achievable with a keyboard alone, and that visible focus indicators are clearly displayed at every interactive element throughout the application.
Systematic colour contrast ratio testing for all text, UI components, and meaningful graphical elements against WCAG 2.1 AA minimums — 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text and UI components. We also test for content that relies solely on colour to convey meaning, which fails users with colour blindness regardless of contrast ratios.
Review of your application's HTML semantics and ARIA implementation — verifying correct use of landmark roles, heading hierarchy, form labelling, live region announcements, and modal dialog patterns. Incorrect ARIA is often worse than no ARIA — we identify both missing accessibility attributes and harmful misuse that creates confusion for assistive technology users.
A comprehensive accessibility report listing every finding with WCAG success criterion reference, severity rating, affected user groups, reproduction steps, and specific code-level fix recommendations. Findings are prioritised so your development team knows what to fix first for maximum impact on real users. We offer a retest after remediation to verify issues are correctly resolved.
We agree the testing scope — which pages and components to audit — and the conformance target. WCAG 2.1 Level AA is the standard minimum we recommend for most applications. For government, financial services, or healthcare applications, we discuss whether Level AAA criteria or specific regional standards (EN 301 549 for Europe, Section 508 for US federal) apply to your organisation.
We run axe-core and WAVE scans across all in-scope pages and components, capturing a baseline of automatically detectable violations. Automated tools reliably catch approximately 30–40% of WCAG issues — the remaining 60–70% require human judgement and assistive technology testing. We use automated results as a starting point, not a complete picture.
Our accessibility testers manually evaluate every in-scope component against WCAG success criteria — testing keyboard navigation, reviewing HTML semantics, checking colour contrast on all text and UI elements, verifying form error handling, and assessing content readability. This phase catches the issues that automated tools always miss.
We navigate your entire application using NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on macOS/iOS — experiencing your application as a blind user would. We document every place where the screen reader experience is confusing, incorrect, or missing important information, providing specific ARIA and HTML changes that will fix each issue.
We deliver a prioritised accessibility report and present findings to your development team. We remain available during remediation to answer technical questions about specific fixes. After your team has addressed the findings, we offer a verification retest to confirm compliance and issue a formal accessibility conformance statement for your documentation.
WCAG 2.2 (published 2023) adds nine new success criteria to WCAG 2.1, primarily focused on improving accessibility for users with cognitive disabilities and mobile users. The most significant additions include stricter focus visibility requirements, target size minimums for interactive elements, and consistent help mechanisms. WCAG 2.1 Level AA remains the most widely referenced standard in legislation, but WCAG 2.2 is increasingly expected by forward-looking organisations. We test against both on request.
No. Automated accessibility tools reliably identify around 30–40% of WCAG issues — primarily mechanical violations like missing alt text, contrast failures, and invalid markup. The remaining 60–70% of accessibility issues require human evaluation — assessing whether alt text is meaningful, whether keyboard focus order makes sense, whether error messages are helpful, and whether screen reader announcements are logical. Automated-only accessibility audits consistently miss the issues that matter most to disabled users.
Integrated accessibility testing — where accessibility is checked during development rather than after — adds minimal overhead. Retrofitting accessibility onto an existing application that was built without it in mind is significantly more work. We help teams build lightweight accessibility checks into their development process so new features are built accessibly from the start, rather than auditing and remediating large backlogs of accessibility debt.
Yes. We test mobile application accessibility using TalkBack on Android and VoiceOver on iOS — verifying that native mobile accessibility features work correctly with your app. Mobile accessibility testing covers touch target sizes, screen reader navigation, gesture alternatives, and dynamic content announcements. Many accessibility issues are unique to mobile contexts and require separate testing from the web application.
Yes. 360 Fahrenheit is based in Lahore, Pakistan and delivers accessibility testing engagements fully remotely. We access your application through standard browsers and assistive technologies, conduct all testing on our end, and deliver reports and remediation guidance digitally. We serve clients across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, and the United States.