Apple Accessibility Resources

Not sure wether Apple needs any presentation, but anyways there you go… The company behind products like the iPhone, iPad, mac. The same company behind operating systems like iOS, Mac OS, and TV OS. Or the same exact company behind applications like Xcode, Logic Pro X, Final Cut, and so on…

In this section you can find relevant accessibility resources released by Apple that (guess what?) explain how accessibility-related features built into its products work, or explain how to make applications for its platforms accessible.

Resources

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Support Hardware Keyboards in Your App (WWDC 2020)

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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020, you can discover how to support hardware keyboards for your iPadOS and Mac Catalyst apps: you can learn how the so-called “responder chain” works, how to get up and running with common system keyboard shortcuts, use modifier flags with gesture recognizers, and leverage the raw keyboard event API to respond to key down and key up events.

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Supporting VoiceOver in Your App

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this guide made available by Apple, you can learn all you need to know to get started adding support for VoiceOver (Apple’s built-in screen reader) to your iOS app.

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What's new in Web Accessibility? (WWDC 2022)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022, you can discover some techniques for building rich, accessible web apps by using custom controls, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), and the dialog element.

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Create Accessible Single App Mode Experiences

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022, you can learn how to provide more control and accessibility to people using your apps in Single App Mode.

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Add Accessibility to Your Unity

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The Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) is a plugin that allows you to make the interface of your Unity based games accessible to blind and visually impaired players.

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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

Vincenzo Rubano
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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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Support Full Keyboard Access in Your iOS App (WWDC 2021)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2021 you will explore how people with motor impairments can interact with their iPhone or iPad solely through keyboard input, working through a real-life example to discover key APIs.

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