May 16, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a perfect time to reflect on how we can make our iOS apps more inclusive. Imagine trying to use an app where you can’t read the text, interact with buttons, or navigate at all. Sounds unnecessarily frustrating, right? That’s still sadly the reality for many people who are dependent on assistive technologies in their life. But as developers, we have the power to ensure our apps are accessible and usable for everyone.
Mar 10, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
I’ve always silently struggled with the conflict of trying to make the content that I create as accessible as possible and on the other side I create these completely inaccessible sketchnotes because they’re made of images and not text. I used to add image descriptions to the sketchnotes, but the descriptions were quite short and very non-descriptive. Usually it just was something like "Sketchnote about X, Y, Z" and that’s it. But I want to do better!
May 16, 2019 ⋅ 8 min read
Is it really important to build mobile apps with accessibility features and who needs them? Deep down, everyone of us knows that when we don’t support accessibility features in our products, we leave users behind. But in reality, we all find tons of excuses for not going that extra mile …
