Tag: a11y
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Learn Accessibility on iOS With Me – Grouping and labels
In the first post of this series, we got a better understanding of accessibility by navigating our apps using VoiceOver. In the second post, we talked about the out-of-the-box accessibility features that ship with SwiftUI. Now it’s time to get some hands-on experience with the Accessibility API of SwiftUI. I assume, that most of you already have existing iOS…
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Book Review: Developing Accessible iOS Apps
As you might know, I’m learning to create accessible iOS apps at the moment. If you are interested in the details, check out my blog post series “Learn Accessibility on iOS With Me”. A few weeks ago, a dear colleague of mine who attended the NSSpain recommended this talk by Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats to me. In his talk, Daniel talks…
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Learn Accessibility on iOS With Me – SwiftUI basics
Before we dive into the details of how to improve the accessibility of your (SwiftUI-based) iOS apps, we should see what SwiftUI does for us out of the box. If you are just going to have a few Text() elements and a button, you might already have a good user experience for users using assistive technology. Default…
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Learn Accessibility on iOS With Me – Introduction
Every developer that has to do with any kind of frontend (web frontends, app development, you name it), knows that accessibility is important. Adding accessibility features to our products will open our products to millions of potential users. And we know that. That’s the good part. And I’m sure, you already know the sad part…