Accessibility in Android

In this section you can find references to accessibility information about Android, the operating system developed by Google, to power a very wide variety of devices including smartphones, tablets and smart TVs. Information on how to make iOS apps accessible and tools to help you in the process will be provided as well.

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Android Accessibility Scanner

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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.

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Test Your Android Apps Accessibility

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In this comprehensive guide by Google you can get an overview how different assistive technologies built-in into the Android operating systems and how to use them to test and evaluate the accessibility of your Android apps.

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Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android

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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.

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Pico TTS

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Initially developed by SVox (a Swiss company acquired in 2011 by Nuance), Pico TTS is a multilingual, open source speech synthesizer that can run many operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android.

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Unity UI Accessibility PluginDocumentation overview

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In this page from the MetalPopGames website, you can find a lot of (very useful!) tutorials on how to use the Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) to make the interface of your Unity based game accessible to blind and visually impaired players.

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Unity UI Accessibility Plugin- Basic Tutorial

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In this short video from MetalPopGames, you can learn how to get started making the interface of your [Unity]/https://unity.com) game accessible for blind and visually impaired users by leveraging the Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP).

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Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP)

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The Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) allows you to make the User Interface (UI) of your Unity based game accessible to blind and visually impaired players on Windows, Android, iOS, Mac and WebGL.

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Accessibility Principles

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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview

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This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Stories of Web Users

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Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.

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Diverse Abilities and Barriers

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This informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.

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