Mac Accessible Testing Program

Mac Accessible Testing Program is a CUCAT program to ensure that your Macintosh applications and hardware products are meeting a high level of accessibility standards for use by the blind, deaf, print disabled and others with similar conditions.

Your customers, both print disabled and non print disabled, will be assured that your applications and products will be usable under Apple's VoiceOver technology was well as other Macintosh systems and services used by the disabled.

Requirements

CUCAT requires a single copy of your program as supplied to the customer with serial numbers. This can be mailed to either our Australian or United States address or sent to us via email or we can arrange to download the program from your web site.

We would also require contact information for the product so that we can provide you with information on our testing upon passing the testing. In the event you do not pass we will provide a report on what needs to be done to your application. We will also include your product in a searchable database of accessible Macintosh applications and products.

Costs

For open source and freeware applications the program and testing process is free of charge. For commercial and shareware applications the cost is the retail cost of the product being tested in Australian or U.S. dollars.

What we test

We will test for compatibility in the following areas as well as others as needed by the product:

VoiceOver

Testing of all menus, on screen controls and content areas for VoiceOVer compatibility.

• Can the controls be reached by a blind user?
• Are help tags present where needed?
• Are alternate means of performing a task provided where no reasonable means of doing the task can be done on screen?
• Does your application function correctly with Braille display devices?

Closed Captioning

• In the case of video, does the captioning display when activated.
• Is the captioning properly synchronised to the dialog or action?

Descriptive Audio

• In the case of video does descriptive audio play when activated?
• Is it properly synchronised to the visuals on the screen?

Hardware

• Can the hardware be connected to the computer and configured by the blind?
• Are control surfaces clear and if not marked tactually can such a modification be made by the customer?
• Is the accompanying software accessible and can it be installed by the disabled user without assistance?
• If the hardware uses audible tone or speech, is there alternate visual output for the deaf?

More Information

For more information or if you have any questions please contact us at the following addresses:

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