Daring Fireball: Apple and Accessibility

Steven Aquino, writing for TechCrunch:

But it isn’t only Apple who’s doing good. Third-party developers have a responsibility to incorporate accessibility into their apps as well, and that’s where WWDC comes in. Apple provides numerous resources to developers during the conference that help he or she ensure that their app(s) are as accessible as possible.

The accessibility presence at WWDC is deep and far-reaching; Apple does much to raise awareness of and advocate for the accessibility community. Apple this week granted me behind-the-scenes access to sessions, labs, and developer interviews at Moscone so as to tell WWDC’s accessibility story.

Steven’s is a great roundup of the numerous ways accessibility was emphasized at WWDC last week. I’ll draw your attention to a few items though:

During the Apple Design Awards, Workflow was lauded specifically for its deep, highly descriptive accessibility support. The whole ADA presentation is worth watching, but if you only have a few minutes, skip to the 35:00 mark and watch the Workflow demo, which was performed by two visually impaired members of Apple’s accessibility team.
Apple was awarded the 2015 Helen Keller Achievement Award for VoiceOver.
AppleVis has a roundup of other apps with great accessibility support.
Apple’s new “Popular Apps Using VoiceOver” promotion on the App Store.

★ Friday, 19 June 2015