What automated scans miss: three ways to manually audit in RAMP | Webinar Video
Automated scans are a smart first step, but they catch only about 30% to 50% of accessibility barriers. Finding the rest takes manual testing, which can feel like a lot to take on, whether you’re not sure where to start or you already have a process you trust.
Peter Jewett Founder and CEO of Accessible Web, will walk through three ways to complete a manual Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) audit in Accessible Web RAMP, from easy to expert. Follow our steps, or bring your own.
What we’ll cover:
- Easy mode: building a Guided Manual Audit Grid and working through it row by row
- Guided mode: completing a column with the Guided Manual Audit Tool in the Accessible Web Helper Chrome extension, following our tests
- Expert mode: auditing in workbooks with your own methodology, then exporting your results to the grid
- How RAMP fits your manual auditing process, with training wheels on or off
Bring your manual auditing questions. We encourage you to ask them live throughout the session!
Video
Watch on YouTube for the full transcript.
More Resources:
- Free Website Accessibility Checker
- Enter a URL and generate a quick report of WCAG issues on that page. For full-site scanning and ongoing monitoring, sign up for a free RAMP trial.
- Accessible Web: Resources and Guides
- Web Accessibility WCAG 2.2 Knowledge Base
Q&A
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Partly. The scan digest summarizes activity across the account, including the automated score and open remediation tasks. It can include tasks from the remediation task view, but it isn’t specific to manual audit results. I treat that report as a high-level view of the RAMP account.
If you want your client to see the full depth of data from a completed manual audit, the best option is to invite them into RAMP directly. You can invite them at the property level, so they can’t access other properties in your account. That helps if you’re an agency or work with multiple product teams.
Clients who don’t want to work in the platform usually get the report summary, and sometimes the CSV file for more complete reporting. Clients who do want to work in the platform get invited directly.
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You can export remediation tasks as a CSV file. The export doesn’t keep the structure of the manual audit grid, which is proprietary to RAMP. That’s one of the reasons we encourage you to do at least some of your work in the platform.
The CSV includes all your remediation tasks, which is useful for syncing with external systems. We also offer a Jira integration, so if you use Jira for product management, you can sync tasks to it directly.
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RAMP doesn’t support importing workbooks natively. We can sometimes offer it on RAMP Pro and Pro+ plans, and we occasionally offer it to agency partners.
The format of the results matters, because they need to sync with RAMP’s system. If this is something you need, we’d want to talk it through with you.
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The instructions take you step by step through what to test and how to test it. For example, the keyboard test instructions explain what a keyboard test is, what’s involved, and how to run it on your computer.
I recommend going through the step-by-step instructions for every test, especially when you’re starting out. Testing is my job, and I still reference those instructions daily.
There are also video walkthroughs for every step in the guided manual audit grid. They’re a great resource if you want to see a test walked through the first time. We built them to help beginners get comfortable with the tool and understand each manual audit check.
