Accessibility is a crucial, usually missed, a part of constructing a top quality app. The Net Content material Accessibility Pointers (WCAG) might be complicated and it’s usually unclear the right way to apply these tips to Android.
On this e book, you’ll study constructing accessible apps on Android utilizing WCAG by hands-on, step-by-step tutorials.
Earlier than You Start
This part tells you a number of issues it is advisable to know earlier than you get began, reminiscent of what you’ll want for {hardware} and software program, the place to search out the venture recordsdata for this e book, and extra.
Part I: Android Accessibility by Tutorials
Start your journey into studying about constructing, testing and customizing accessible apps on Android utilizing WCAG by hands-on, step-by-step tutorials.
Why must you design your apps with accessibility in thoughts? This chapter presents many the reason why accessibility is a precedence in trendy app design. From creating a greater, extra marketable product to treating others with care. It will probably even enhance productiveness.
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Say Whats up to Accessibility! Discover ways to use lint to search out accessibility warnings
and a few easy methods to resolve some frequent accessibility points in a single or two strains of
code. Introduces WCAG and different sources to know accessibility necessities and
common design so all customers of your app take pleasure in a cohesive expertise.
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To know the accessibility enhancements you are making, you want a option to confirm your adjustments. That is why on this chapter you may study how one can check for accessibility enhancements, in addition to the right way to use accessibility providers to expertise the identical factor your person would possibly.
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Understanding the fundamentals about display readers is essential when engaged on accessibility. On this chapter, you may study extra about this instrument, in addition to how you should use content material descriptions and layouts to make your app extra perceivable.
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Options together with video, audio or animation usually concentrate on a visible and auditory expertise. This chapter explores how one can current the identical info to customers who cannot benefit from the visible or auditory expertise in the way in which you’ve got designed.
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On this chapter, you’ll acquire an understanding of what coloration distinction is and the way you should use it in your app. By investigating varieties of imaginative and prescient impairments, distinction, and evening mode, you’ll have a greater understanding of the right way to make your app extra perceivable.
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Navigation is vital to virtually any app. On this chapter you’ll study how one can permit your customers to navigate your app utilizing quite a lot of assistive applied sciences.
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This chapter continues discussing operability by taking a look at motion and timing. The best way you deal with conveniences reminiscent of auto-advance and gestures could make a huge impact on how simply folks can use your app. Right here, you’ll study some methods about the right way to method these sorts of options.
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Even when somebody can understand and function your app, they might not perceive it. This chapter will educate you how one can deal with language, iconography, consistency and error dealing with in a manner that improves your app’s understandability.
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To make a sturdy app, it must know the right way to work together with the accessibility providers on any system. Whereas working with Android’s parts, most of this work is completed for you. On this chapter, you’ll learn to work together with accessibility providers when constructing customized views.
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A part of making your app accessible contains constructing it with neurodiversity in thoughts. By making your app extra configurable, contextual and conscious of phrasing, you present your customers that you just care about them.
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You acknowledge the significance of accessibility, however how do you get your group on board to dedicate time to it? On this chapter, you’ll learn to enhance schooling and buy-in in your group, in addition to the right way to combine accessibility into your processes.
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Part II: Appendix
It’s not straightforward to recollect all the pieces there may be to find out about accessibility. That’s why this appendix offers you a guidelines of things to search for when constructing your app. You possibly can tailor these to be used in PRs or audits.
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