UI’s panel includes over 430,000 people who meet accessibility-related criteria like physical or cognitive disabilities. Use our advanced targeting, segmentation, and verification capabilities to narrow in on the audience you need.
Run high-quality research with any niche audience. Thousands of new participants join our panel every month, spanning 8 countries and counting. Match with your first qualified participant in under 1 hour and complete research in days.
Understand your product’s accessibility with compliance testing, usability testing, 1-1 interviews, focus groups, and paid market research for people with disabilities. We support moderated, unmoderated, and multi-day studies for any kind of research.
With a diverse pool of testers and support for any research method, you can get accessibility research done right.
Accessibility testing is a type of inclusive UX research that evaluates websites, software, apps, and other products to ensure they are usable for people with disabilities.
People with disabilities—such as visual, auditory, mobility, and cognitive impairments—may have different needs and challenges that affect the user experience of digital products. To design an equally positive experience for these users, you need to test your product with them and get their feedback.
For example, you might need to test things like:
Accessibility testing is a key component of inclusive design. By designing products that are inclusive and usable for all users across the spectrum of abilities, you can reach a broader audience and provide a positive experience for everyone. When companies demonstrate a real-world commitment to designing accessible, inclusive, ethical experiences, customers respond with continued business and positive reviews.
Along with the business benefit of satisfying a wider audience, and the ethical responsibility of offering a consistent experience to a diverse group of customers, there is also legal compliance to keep in mind. To avoid fees, lawsuits, and reputational damage, products need to meet established accessibility standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the European Accessibility Act (EAA), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9241-171.
Accessibility testing is a critical practice for improving the user experience, reducing bias, and complying with regulations. Here are some tips for getting started:
There are many different avenues you can take to start recruiting people with disabilities, including posting ads on Craigslist or social media or enlisting the help of a recruiting agency. But the fastest and easiest way to get started with recruiting for accessibility UX research is User Interviews.
With smart matching algorithms and a diverse panel of over 4 million participants, User Interviews takes the pain out of research recruiting. Our panel includes a large segment of users with visual, auditory, cognitive, and physical disabilities, and Recruit makes it easy to target, segment, and screen these users based on any qualifying criteria. Or, if you already have an audience of users, you can build your own accessibility panel with Research Hub.