{"id":1408,"date":"2018-04-27T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/pwaa\/?post_type=chapter&p=1408"},"modified":"2022-12-16T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:23:51","slug":"recruiting-user-testers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/pwaa\/chapter\/recruiting-user-testers\/","title":{"raw":"Recruiting User Testers","rendered":"Recruiting User Testers"},"content":{"raw":"It's relatively easy to find user testers through social media groups, disability and accessibility mailing lists, university accessibility services, or organizations that serve people with disabilities. People with disabilities tend to be receptive to testing when you are improving accessibility, and are often willing to refer you to other potential testers.\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/span>\r\n\r\nAfter all the work that she and her team have done, Lulu realizes that one potential source of referrals for user testers may in fact be the organization who approached Lulu\u2019s Lollipops to inquire about their accessibility in the first place!\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Initial Screening<\/h2>\r\nIt is important that user testers be screened for particular characteristics, including good understanding of web technologies, as well as proficiency using their respective AT. This is necessary, in most cases, to ensure that issues that testers\u2019 experience during testing are attributable to problems with the web content or application being tested, and not the result of inexperience with the Web or limited expertise with the AT being used.\r\n\r\nThere are a number of questions that you can ask that will help gauge a user tester's level of knowledge.\r\n\r\nThe two main categories of questions to cover in screening user testers are:\r\n