The slides are from the Swift talk "Making Apps More Accessible" by Rizwan Ahmed from Zoho Corporation. The talk was given at the Cred x Swift India Meetup during September.

1. Rizwan Ahmed A
iOS Developer & Technology Evangelist
Zoho Corporation
Making Apps
More Accessible

2. — Alina Wheeler
“Design is
intelligence
made visible.”

3. Over 1 billion people live with some
form of disability.
- WHO

4. Why bother?
Several reasons.

5. Why bother?
Several reasons.
It’s the right thing to do.
Everyone should get to
experience the joy of using
a well-built software

6. Challenges
The text is hard to read
Vision
No captions in the video, so can’t
understand the context
Hearing
Can’t progress because I can’t
touch a button
Physical and
motor skills
I can’t read this. I don’t know
what it is conveyed
Literacy and
learning

7. To make
accessible apps,
we need to have an
accessible mindset

8. Let’s get started

9. UIAccessibility

10. UIAccessibility
The UIAccessibility informal
protocol provides accessibility
information about an app’s
user interface elements.

11. UIAccessibility
Most of the things are handled
automatically and hence it is
overlooked

12. Dynamic Type

13. Dynamic Type
Accomplishes one simple goal -
make sure everyone can read text
at a size of their choosing

14. Dynamic Type
Set
adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory
to true.
Assign a font vended from
a text style using
UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle:)

15. Dynamic Type

16. Dynamic Type

17. Scaling Images

18. Scaling Images
Set
adjustsImageSizeForAccessibility
ContentSizeCategory to true
Use a vector image
Adjust your constraints accordingly

19. Scaling Images

20. Dynamic Type
Demo

21. Accessibility properties

22. • isAccessibilityElement
• accessibilityTraits
• accessibilityFrame
• accessibilityLabel
• accessibilityValue
• accessibilityHint
Important
accessibility
properties

23. A short, to-the-point string that
identi
fi
es the element. It should
be localized
accessibilityLabel

24. The element’s value if it has one.
This should be localized.
accessibilityValue

25. Brie
fl
y describes what would happen
if the user interacted with the element.
This should be localized.
accessibilityHint

26. VoiceOver

27. VoiceOver
VoiceOver is the marquee
element of accessibility on iOS

28. VoiceOver
VoiceOver makes use of
accessibility properties for
functioning

29. VoiceOver
VoiceOver demo from the privacy
fi
rst, mobile analytics tool - Zoho Apptics - https://www.zoho.com/apptics/

30. Screen Curtain
Three
fi
ngers + Triple Tap

31. VoiceOver
Demo

32. VoiceControl

33. Voice Control
Useful for people who might have di
ffi
culty
touching or interacting with the physical
hardware of their device.

34. Voice Control
Voice Control demo from the privacy
fi
rst, mobile analytics tool - Zoho Apptics - https://www.zoho.com/apptics/

35. Voice Control
Demo

36. Rotors

37. Rotors
Quick Navigation
It can tell VoiceOver to only
navigate by, or to,
certain elements (such as headers).

38. Rotors
1st Category
2st Category
Makes use of accessibilityTraits
myTappableLabel.accessibilityTraits = [.header]

39. Accessibility Inspector

40. Accessibility
Inspector

41. A recap
• Dynamic types
• Accessibility properties
• Voice over
• Voice control
• Rotors
• Accessibility inspector

42. References
- https://ohmyswift.com/
- https://developer.apple.com/
accessibility/

43. Reach out to me @
https://linktr.ee/rizwan95

44. Have a great day