Bridging the Accessibility Gap

The *accessibility gap* is the gap between having a passing familiarity with the accessibility APIs, and being able to wield them effectively to create great accessible experiences. Accessibility has been a focus for Reveal for the last few years, and our work has been motivated by wanting to help developers and mobile teams close this gap. Most accessibility advice online starts from the bottom, assuming no prior knowledge, and will often include lengthy justifications for *why* you should make your app accessible. We’re going to assume you already recognise and respect why it’s important that your app is accessible to as many users as possible. Using Reveal's Accessibility and Insights workspaces, we'll go through a real-world app and show how choices affect the accessible user interfaces differently, and how to create a better experience, using concrete, actionable examples. The goal is for you to leave this talk with approaches and tools that you can apply to your own apps.

About the presenter

Chris Kolbu is a senior iOS/macOS developer at Itty Bitty Apps. He cares deeply about accessibility, user and developer experience, software testing, and performance. He does not care for Christmas being in summer, but is getting used to it. Tony Arnold has been developing for Apple’s platforms for over 20 years, and leads the delivery of Reveal at Itty Bitty Apps. Tony and Chris are the current developer team behind Reveal, a development tool used to debug and improve apps on Apple’s mobile platforms for almost a decade.

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