Quoting the corresponding Wikipedia page, “Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), as well as adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning)”. The term typography can also refer to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.
By definition, it is obvious that typography plays a significant role with regards to accessibility; in fact, it can have a significant impact on content legibility and readability. Studies in the literature have also shown that certain typographic choices can have an impact on how easy people with learning difficulties and cognitive disabilities can read and understand written content.
Typography comes into play when designing almost anything: from paper content to digital publications, including web pages, desktop and mobile applications, books, posters, and so on. Unsurprisingly, there are different accessibility guidelines that can help you out making typographic decisions keeping into account these considerations. In this section you can find references to them, as well as pointers to (hopefully useful) tools and additional support resources you can leverage in the process.
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2021 you can find out how you can offer a great accessibility experience for watchOS by supporting features like larger text sizes, VoiceOver, and AssistiveTouch.
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020 you can learn how to achieve exceptional typography in your app’s user interface while enhancing legibility, accessibility, and consistency across Apple platforms.
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer conference (WWDC) 2020, you will discover how to create an adaptive interface for your iOS app that takes a thoughtful approach to color, provides readable text, and accommodates other visual settings to provide a great experience.
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2019 you can learn about a few critical concepts that are important to make your app accessible for people with vision disorders.
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2019 you can learn how to enable Large Content Viewer on your custom tab bars, an accessibility feature introduced in iOS 13 that helps them to be seen by people with low vision and visual impairments.
Read moreQuoting Apple, “the Accessibility Inspector enables you to identify parts of your app that are not accessible. It provides feedback on how you can make them accessible, as well as simulating voice-over to help you identify what a Voice Over user would experience”.
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2018 you can learn how to create apps with an exceptional accessibility experience. In particular, you will learn how to:
Read moreIn this video from Apple World Wide Developer conference (WWDC) 2017 you will understand how to support dynamic type when displaying text, a feature that allow people to choose their preferred text size and make iOS switch fonts automatically as needed.
Read moreIn this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.
Read morePrimarily developed at Google, Lighthouse is a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”. The available audits include a comprehensive, detailed accessibility report that can be generated for any web page.
Read moreTechniques for WCAG 2.1 is an informative document provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at W3C, to provide guidance for developers and accessibility evaluators on meeting WCAG 2.
Read moreAlso known as “WCAG 2 test rules”, Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) rules describe how to test conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criteria. They are primarily intended for usage by developers of evaluation tools and test methodologies.
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