40:15: "In Germany, user testing is now mandatory in the BFIT Bund version of the European Accessibility Act." If that were true, the German law would be far beyond the European Accessibility Act. The EAA relies on the concept of "presumption of conformity", so a website or product complies to the law when it meets certain standards identified by the European Commission as "harmonised standards". How you prove compliance is not defined in the EAA. (The Web Accessibility Directive works in the same way.) Hence, there is no stated requirement for user testing. The European directive focuses on the result, not in checking the process how you get there. The German Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG), which transposes the EAA into German law, does not mention user testing either. So what is the source of the claim that "user testing is now mandatory in the BFIT Bund version of the European Accessibility Act"?
40:15: "In Germany, user testing is now mandatory in the BFIT Bund version of the European Accessibility Act."
If that were true, the German law would be far beyond the European Accessibility Act. The EAA relies on the concept of "presumption of conformity", so a website or product complies to the law when it meets certain standards identified by the European Commission as "harmonised standards". How you prove compliance is not defined in the EAA. (The Web Accessibility Directive works in the same way.) Hence, there is no stated requirement for user testing. The European directive focuses on the result, not in checking the process how you get there.
The German Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG), which transposes the EAA into German law, does not mention user testing either.
So what is the source of the claim that "user testing is now mandatory in the BFIT Bund version of the European Accessibility Act"?