How to Run an Accessibility Quiz Day for Your Team

A quiz day is the cheapest form of accessibility training, because it teaches by showing rather than by telling. A team that answers a quiz question wrong remembers the rule behind it, and a team that answers together argues about real pages instead of nodding at slides. This plan runs in one hour, uses the free quizzes on this site, and ends with a fix list for your own site. No slides, no speaker, no budget beyond the hour.

Before the hour: pick three quizzes, and one page each

Open the all quizzes page and pick three topics that match your team's work. A content team should pick contrast, use of color, and text over images, because those three decide whether words on images and charts can be read. A developer team should pick keyboard focus, target size, and non-text contrast, because those three decide whether controls can be reached, seen, and hit. A mixed team should pick one from each group, plus the daily game, Accessible or Not?, as a warm-up.

For each quiz, pick one page from your own site that shows the same issue: a hero image with text over it, a button that is hard to see when focused, a chart that relies on colour alone. The quiz teaches the rule. Your own page makes the rule stick, because the team sees the problem on a page they own.

The hour, in four parts

First ten minutes: play the daily game together. Accessible or Not? shows a page or a pattern and asks the team to judge it. Let the team argue before revealing the answer, because the argument is where the learning happens. Note every disagreement, because a disagreement marks a rule the team has not settled yet.

Next thirty minutes: run the three quizzes, ten minutes each. For each quiz, read the question aloud, let everyone answer silently, then reveal the answer and read the explanation. After each quiz, open the matching page from your own site and ask one question: does our page pass this rule, or does it fail it? Write down every fail, with the page name. Do not fix anything during the hour. Fixing during the hour turns a training session into a bug hunt, and the team stops learning.

Next ten minutes: sort the fix list. Rank the fails by template and by path: a fail on a template used by many pages outranks a fail on one page, and a fail on a contact form or checkout path outranks a fail on a blog post. Assign each fail an owner and a date. A fix list with no owner and no date is a list that will appear again at the next quiz day.

Last ten minutes: set the routine. Agree a monthly quiz day, rotating the topics, so the team covers all six quizzes across two months. Agree a publishing check: before any new page goes live, the author runs a keyboard check and a contrast check on that page. That check takes five minutes and prevents most of the fails the quizzes just found.

The six quizzes, and what each one teaches

The contrast quiz teaches contrast ratios: why light text on a light background fails, and why large text has a lower bar than small text. The non-text contrast quiz teaches contrast for things that are not text: icons, borders, and focus indicators, which need enough contrast to be seen even when they carry no words. The target size quiz teaches minimum target sizes: why small, crowded buttons fail on touch screens and for visitors with limited dexterity. The keyboard focus quiz teaches focus order and visible focus: why a page must work with a keyboard alone, and why focus must always be visible. The use of color quiz teaches colour as a cue: why colour alone must never carry meaning, and why an error needs a label as well as a colour. The text over images quiz teaches text on pictures: why text over a busy image fails, and what to do instead, such as a solid background or a caption below the image.

After the hour: turn the list into fixes

Run a scan of the pages on the fix list, and add the scan's findings to the same list, with dates. Check the plan figures for a team site on Axeazy's pricing page if you want weekly monitoring behind the next quiz day. Axeazy's free scan runs in 60 seconds with no signup and no card, and the scan on the homepage covers the page you enter. The scan runs 98 automated checks against WCAG 2.2 AA, grouped into 14 categories, and every scan and fix is recorded with a date and time. Fix the list in rank order, retest the same pages, and bring the results to the next quiz day. A team that sees its own fixes land learns faster than a team that only hears about rules.

The United States Department of Justice guidance says automated checkers can help, but a clean report does not mean everything is accessible, and a manual check paired with automated checks gives a better picture. A quiz day is the manual half of that picture, taught as a game rather than as a lecture, and it pairs well with a scan because each side catches what the other misses.

Related reading

For the full quiz guide, read accessibility quizzes for web teams: a guide, and for the training versus software choice behind a quiz day, read accessibility training vs software: what to buy first. For the buyer checklist, read accessibility tool buyer checklist.

FAQ

How often should a team run a quiz day?

Monthly, rotating topics, so all six quizzes are covered across two months. A one-off quiz day teaches rules once. A monthly routine turns the rules into habits.

Do quiz days replace a scan?

No. A quiz day teaches people to spot problems and to write better pages. A scan finds problems across hundreds of pages and keeps a dated record. Run both: quizzes for the team, scans for the site.

What if the team scores badly on every quiz?

That is a good result, not a bad one. A low score shows the team where its gaps are, and the fix list from the hour shows exactly what to fix first. A team that scores perfectly on a first quiz day has usually seen the answers before, not learned the rules.

Last checked: October 31, 2026 Sources: W3C WCAG 2.2; ADA.gov web guidance; accessibe.tech quiz pages; Axeazy capabilities and pricing pages.

Start with Axeazy's free scan on your homepage this week, then book one hour, pick three quizzes, and run the plan above.