Accessibility is a crucial, usually neglected, a part of constructing a top quality app. The Net Content material Accessibility Pointers (WCAG) will be complicated and it’s usually unclear the way to apply these pointers to Android.
On this guide, you’ll study constructing accessible apps on Android utilizing WCAG by way of hands-on, step-by-step tutorials.
Earlier than You Start
This part tells you a number of issues that you must know earlier than you get began, similar to what you’ll want for {hardware} and software program, the place to seek out the venture recordsdata for this guide, 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 way of hands-on, step-by-step tutorials.
Why must you design your apps with accessibility in thoughts? This chapter presents many explanation why accessibility is a precedence in trendy app design. From creating a greater, extra marketable product to treating others with care. It could actually even improve productiveness.
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Say Whats up to Accessibility! Discover ways to use lint to seek out accessibility warnings
and a few easy methods to unravel some frequent accessibility points in a single or two strains of
code. Introduces WCAG and different assets to grasp 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 make, you want a approach to confirm your adjustments. That is why on this chapter you will study how one can take a look at for accessibility enhancements, in addition to the way to use accessibility providers to expertise the identical factor your person would possibly.
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Understanding the fundamentals about display screen readers is vital when engaged on accessibility. On this chapter, you will study extra about this device, in addition to how you need to use content material descriptions and layouts to make your app extra perceivable.
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Options together with video, audio or animation usually deal with 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 have designed.
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On this chapter, you’ll acquire an understanding of what coloration distinction is and the way you need to use it in your app. By investigating sorts of imaginative and prescient impairments, distinction, and night time mode, you’ll have a greater understanding of the way to make your app extra perceivable.
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Navigation is essential to virtually any app. On this chapter you’ll study how one can enable your customers to navigate your app utilizing quite a lot of assistive applied sciences.
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This chapter continues discussing operability by motion and timing. The way in which you deal with conveniences similar to auto-advance and gestures could make a huge impact on how simply individuals can use your app. Right here, you’ll study some methods about the way to method these sorts of options.
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Even when somebody can understand and function your app, they could not perceive it. This chapter will train you how one can deal with language, iconography, consistency and error dealing with in a method that improves your app’s understandability.
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To make a sturdy app, it must know the way to work together with the accessibility providers on any system. Whereas working with Android’s parts, most of this work is finished 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 consists of 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 improve schooling and buy-in in your group, in addition to the way to combine accessibility into your processes.
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Part II: Appendix
It’s not simple to recollect all the pieces there may be to learn about accessibility. That’s why this appendix offers you a guidelines of things to search for when constructing your app. You may tailor these to be used in PRs or audits.
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