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I spoke at the BCS Software Testing Specialist Group's Testing, AI, and Diversity Conference yesterday. That's me at the top, holding an imaginary marrow. There'll be videos of all of the talks online shortly but in the meantime, here's my sketchnotes. Sam De Silva , An overview of the draft EU AI Regulation. Adam Leon Smith , Software Testing Standards - why do we need them and when are they useful? Alan Giles , Giving ‘The User’ A Face - Accessibility Testing Using Personas. Andy Shaw, Mental Health, Testing and Me. Deborah Reid , Accessibility 101. Laveena Ramchandani , Testing Data Science Models.   Jonathon Wright , Shift Right into the Metaverse with Digital Twin Testing.  Image: Jonathon Wright on Twitter

I attended Cordellia Yokum 's Usability for everyone: Are you excluding some users from accessing your website? workshop at CAST 2022 .  As I can't do justice to a packed and interactive five-hour session in a short post like this, I'm going to simply drop bullet lists and links from the notes I took here. Accessibility Not just about disability Auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, visual US: one in four have some disability Small screens, elderly users, slow internet, poor lighting conditions, etc SEO benefits from being able to access content Accessibility is not a project. Like Quality, improve it incrementally and continually Assistive technologies Screen magnifiers (e.g. web browser zoom) Text readers (e.g. blind and partially-sighted, ADHD, dyslexia sufferers) Speech recognition software  Head pointers, motion tracking (often for paraplegic users) Single switch entry (e.g. sip and puff mouth operation; keyboards with "quick buttons") POUR Perceivable...