Microsoft provides virtual machines for each of its browsers, allowing you to test Edge, IE11 (and even older versions if your audience requires it).
VirtualBox offers a free way to run virtual machines. Virtual machines help for testing other desktop platforms. It’s not enough to replicate Android, Windows or iOS’s browsers behaviour, however. Some might provide ways to emulate touch interactions like on a phone or tablet or even reduced computing power. This means those browsers will only match a small percentage of the sites’ audience. macOS, even less so, with a lot of people browsing on phones or tablets. The setting is in your Mac’s System Preferences, under General, through the Show scroll bars options.Īpple is nowhere near in the lead when it comes to the OS people are on when browsing the web. It’ll help you spot when you’ve got unexpected overflowing content more easily. While setting up browsers, it can also be handy to set up your Mac to show scrollbars instead of hiding them by default (a tip I took from Florens Verschelde’s experience). Install Firefox (and allow it to zoom a bit further than it can by default to help accessibility testing).Modern browsers behave more similarly to one another than in the past, but it’s still necessary to give a check to be on the safe side. Some people will use Chrome, others Firefox or Edge. Let’s dive into what I’ve set up on mine. Running things locally also means you can install a range of extra tools for checking the sites’ accessibility. With a bit of preparation, you can test a wide range of scenarios right from your machine. Not just in terms of money: if your internet connection unreliable, testing becomes sluggish. Services like Browserstack give access to a wide range of browsers for testing, but they come at a price. We build products for the web, which means users have many different options for ways to interact with the sites we make – they will run on various browsers and a wide range of machines.
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