Hi Louise, unfortunately real mobile devices are best as most emulators and device farms simply don’t have the capability to have all or even some of the accessibility features enabled. I have an iPhone 8, which is mine, that I use for testing. I also have a Galaxy S8 for Android. It wasn’t too expensive, under £200 I believe, which work ordered for me. If at all possible get the phones distributed to your testers or ask for ones for home. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. And thank you for the sketchnote, it is awesome! 
Hi Chris, I mentioned you in a previous answer which may be some use. As I said in the Q&A @ruarig (Matt Parker) and I did a power hour on accessibility and he covers emotional accessibility brilliantly. @scottkenyon may also have some thoughts.
Essentially, things that put pressure on users such as timers that cannot be stopped or extended can cause anxiety. I’m not qualified to guess at how colours affect people but I’m aware there is information on colour psychology out there. Hope that helps in some small way.
Hi Beth, I suppose it depends on your definition of formal and whether this is focused on tester focus or developer. Also whether you are thinking about qualification? I’ll have a go answering but if you have any follow up thoughts or questions please post them.
Informally there’s lots of ways of getting started with accessibility. My start was blogs, articles and following more people on Twitter using #a11y to find them. Look for accessibility London or Scotland and see who they follow, you’ll have loads in no time.
There’s my workshop as part of MoT Pro and a few talks on accessibility at TeshBash’s.
Formally, there’s IAAP (International Association of Accessibility Professionals) who do training and certificates etc. I’ll make no judgements as I’ve heard mixed messages around the value verses cost but the link is there for you to make your own mind up.
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Hi Andy, as you may have seen in my reply to Louise, I’ve not found any simulators that actually allow you to turn on accessibility settings personally. I believe that one of the device farm services allow you to turn a magnifier on but it escapes me which and that’s not a lot of use. If I do find something I’ll certainly share it.
Thank you. Cracking talk, so thanks again for that.
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Thank you. Fortunately, I work for a company where moral responsibilities are taken seriously, so management are on board, it’s making sure that everyone buys in, everyone knows “why” it’s a moral responsibility, as opposed to just being told that they should.
I have seen some folks be astonished that they could join the group that relies on accessibility at any point. They had just never considered it a possibility.
Hi @lgibbs and @ideagentest was just chatting to a dev at work and he uses Android Studio and recorded a video where he was using TalkBack on a device. I asked about it and he had to install TalkBack and use screen switcher from the side menu to turn it on. I’ve not looked into it as yet but it sounds like it could be a viable option to get started. Hope that helps and as / when I get more info I’ll post it here.
Hi folks, I was asked about my a11yCats t-shirt in the talk and promised to share the link. I’m not sure what is available as they also do mugs and stickers but here you go.
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Hmmm you mean by 2016 Blackberry is not included ?
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If I had one I’d test on it but suspect not many places will support them now
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Don’t I know it Ady!!
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