OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 11 September 2025 – Accessibility testing tips and tricks for mobile and apps.
Panelists
Genevieve Lake (she/her)
Genevieve is an Accessibility Senior Specialist at Telstra, based in Adelaide, Australia. With a background in web design and development, UX, and business analysis, she has spent the past 15 years involved in agile delivery teams, dedicated to improving digital experiences for everyone. Her transition into accessibility seven years ago felt like a natural progression of her passion for inclusive design. More recently, her work has centred on mobile app accessibility—a space where she’s developed a strong and growing interest.
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/genevieve-lake-958b55ba
Paul van Workum (he/him)
Paul is co-owner and advisor of Abra.ai. Abra makes apps accessible by focusing on making accessibility straightforward, enabling developers to make effective improvements.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvanworkum/
Ricky Onsman (he/him)
Ricky is a veteran Australian web designer, front-end developer, writer, and editor. He has been an OZeWAI member since 2014, and a Committee Member since 2017. He currently focuses on the OZeWAI website, newsletter, and social media.
As a writer and/or editor of articles, magazines and books, Ricky has worked with the likes of UX Australia, SitePoint, Web Directions and Smashing Magazine. As a freelance designer and front end dev, he has spent two decades building accessible websites for clients.
Ricky has also worked with a series of companies focused on digital accessibility including AccessIQ, Simply Accessible, AccessibilityOz, Intopia, Tenon, and now US-based TPGi where his role as Principal Technical Writer sees him providing technical digital accessibility advice to a very large global team of engineers and auditors.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyonsman/
Moderated by:
Gian Wild (she/her)
Gian Wild works in the area of web accessibility: making sure web sites and mobile apps can be used by people with disabilities. Gian has worked in the accessibility industry since 1998. She worked on the first Level AAA accessible web site in Australia (Disability Information Victoria) and developed one of the first automated accessibility testing tools, PurpleCop, in 2000. She spent six years contributing to the international set of web accessibility guidelines used around the world, the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Gian Wild is the CEO, Founder and President of AccessibilityOz, established in Australia in 2011 and the United States in 2015. Gian is the Chair of the Mobile Site and Native App Mobile Accessibility Guidelines, is active on the Higher Education Content Steering Group for Accessibility Switchboard, as well as a committee member of the ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium conference in the United States.
Gian speaks at both web and accessibility conferences around the world, including in the United States, Europe, South America and Canada. In June 2015, Gian presented to the United Nations on the importance of web accessibility at the Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2019, Gian won the inaugural Accessibility Person of the Year in Australia.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianwild/
Watch the YouTube recording
Resources and links
Patrick H. Lauke : https://www.accessibilityoz.com/resources/mobile-testing/
OZeWAI : State of Accessibility in Australia: https://ozewai.org/resources/australian-legislation-and-standards/
Patrick H. Lauke : Replying to “And, yes, screen rec…” especially on android …. “Android screen recording with TalkBack audio” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnjA4HkR4I
Patrick H. Lauke : also, those lengthy discussions about “does an app NEED to adapt to dark mode” (stoked by handwavy wording in EN 301 549)
Patrick H. Lauke : related… https://labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/-/issues/23
Patrick H. Lauke : https://appt.org/en/stats
Gian Wild : https://www.accessibilityoz.com/2022/02/ios-voice-control-saves-the-day/
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/layouts/adaptive/use-window-size-classes . And, yes, this is an issue for testing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIgU53Y2Rg
Robert Henley : For mobile testing guidelines, I find the RAAM framework promising: https://accessibilite.public.lu/en/raam1.1/index.html. It’s still limited by current EN 301 549’s interpretation for mobile (which I have a few issues with: the lack of Consistent Navigation in particular), but I believe that standard will be improved soon.
OZeWAI : https://ozewai.createsend1.com/t/y-e-qiunhy-l-oy/
Patrick H. Lauke : https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/