This week’s question comes from
Tim:
How do you make sure that when a new feature is developed, accessibility is taken into account from the ground up?
This is a great question and highly relevant to building apps in today’s world since the
European Accessibility act puts more pressure on making apps accessible. But even outside of that act, it’s essential to make your app accessible to as many users as possible.
Luckily, SwiftUI makes a lot of our app elements accessible by default. This is definitely not enough, and testing your app is required, but it does improve the fundamentals.
If anything, I’d try to focus on educating your team on testing for accessibility and making it part of your PR reviews to ensure accessibility support is part of regular UI development.
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