The Accessibility Test feature
General Information
Accessibility testing is available in the Design Editor for emails, the older Template Kit editor does not support automated accessibility testing.
Entries on the results page that are labelled with WCAG refer to legally required accessibility criteria. Entries labelled with Best Practice are recommendations.
Testing a message draft
Prerequisites: You see a message draft in the Design Editor for emails.
- Click More Options.
- Click Accessibility Test. → The page Accessibility Test shows the test results.
Structure of the test results page
A box on top of the page Accessibility Test shows the absolute number of issues with the current design. Three drop-down fields allow filtering of the tested criteria.
The criteria and the results are displayed as a list with multiple sections. Each criterion is a box that contains following information from left to right:
- Test Result
- Criterion name
- Conformity level
Each criterion can be expanded and collapsed again by clicking the arrow next to Learn More on the right-hand side. The expanded version shows an explanation of the criterion. If applicable, the expanded version also shows snippets of the HTML code where an accessibility issue was detected.
Filtering of the test results
To quickly find specific criteria, you can filter the list with three drop-down fields:
- Criteria: Filter criteria by testing method or result.
- Categories: Filter criteria by the type of content they relate to. The values in this field align with the headings of the list sections.
- Conformity Level: Select criteria by regulatory conformity levels.
You can combine the three fields to search for specific information, e.g. issues related to graphics that apply to conformity level WCAG AA.
More on Accessibility
To learn more about optimizing your content for accessibility and resolving problems, please refer to the other articles in the accessibility section.