Accessibility in iOS

In this section you can find references to accessibility information about iOS, the operating system developed by Apple to power its iPhone. Documentation with regards to specific accessibility features of the device will be available as well. Information on how to make iOS apps accessible will be provided as well.

Resources

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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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Adee Comprehensive Accessibility Tool

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Available as a plugin for Adobe Xd and Figma (with support for Sketch coming soon), Adee is a “comprehensive accessibility tool” you can install to integrate accessibility directly in your design workflow.

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Design Considerations: One Size Fits All?

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When it comes to making a website or application accessible, sometimes it is tempting to elaborate different designs to accommodate people with different needs. In this guide from WebAIM you can find a brief overview how the pros and cons of this choice when compared to the available alternative: a single design, that tries to accommodate all needs of people with disabilities.

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Color Palette Contrast Analyzer

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Being developed by Deque Systems (the same company behind products such as axe-core and Axe Dev Tools), this color palette contrast analyzer is a web service that allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between all colors in your color palette.

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Accessible Colors

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This minimal, easy to use web service allows you to quickly test wether the contrast ratio between two colors (foreground and background) is enough for your text to be accessible.

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WebAIM Contrast Checker

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This service provided by WebAIM (the same company behind the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)) allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between foreground and background colors.

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Open Dyslexic

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OpenDyslexic is an open source typeface that aims to help with some of the symptoms of dyslexia, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5).

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Voice Dream Reader

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Voice Dream Reader is an award-winning, feature rich commercial text-to-speech reader that turns any document and ebook into audio. It provides a comprehensive set of features that make reading documents (including books and web pages) on iOS an extremely pleasant experience.

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