End user testing from print disabled people
While not common for small presses, and likely this is beyond available capacity, best practice would be to approach end users with disabilities to test a sample of book files, web pages and submission systems. Below is some advice on finding user testing opportunities like this, if presses decide to go down this route.
The best feedback will always come from end users with disabilities, and from older users, as it can uncover accessibility barriers that are commonly experienced by your readership, yet are not captured within legal minimum accessibility requirements.
In most cases, including users in evaluation involves:
- getting a few people with disabilities, and depending on your target audience, older users
- including them throughout the development process to complete sample tasks on draft book files and websites so you can see how different aspects of the design and coding could be improved before publication
- discussing accessibility issues with them
Advice taken from:
W3C Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-disabilities-and-impairments-user-profiles
https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/step-step-guide-user-testing