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When users have different, even conflicting, needs for access, what should you do? This blog post discusses personalization as a way to solve this issue.
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Android Studio Iguana brought us UI Checks, and in this blog post, I'll discuss them specifically from accessibility point of view.
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Having both dark and light themes in your app is essential for accessibility. This post explains why, and provides links to further reading.
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In this blog post, I discuss how to test with Accessibility Scanner, a semi-automated tool (an Android app) for testing Android accessibility.
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In this blogpost, I'll look into some considerations about font sizing, how to test it, and what are some common issues related to increased font sizes.
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I'm building an app to track my periods with Health Connect and write about the process. In this blog post, we'll look into how to update and delete Health Connect data.
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I'm building an app to track my periods with Health Connect and write about the process. In this blog post, we'll look into how to read and write Health Connect data.
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I'm building an app to track my periods with Health Connect and write about the process. In this blog post, we'll look into how to set up Health Connect and ask user permission to read and write data.
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Making graphs accessible on Android requires some work, and in this blog post series I explore how to do that. The fourth post is about adding visible control buttons for using the graph.
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Content descriptions for images are a vital part of accessibility. In this blog post, I'll share what every Android developer should know about them.
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In this blog post, we will look at how you can position an element on overlay while keeping it in the same position as before - like many messaging apps highlight a message you are reacting to.
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Density-independent pixels are a way to handle the visible size of UIs in different screen densities of Android devices. In this blog post, I discuss what they are and how to convert them to pixels and back.
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Making graphs accessible on Android requires some work, and in this blog post series I explore how to do that. The third post is all about differentiating data by other means than color.
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Making graphs accessible on Android requires some work, and in this blog post series I explore how to do that. The second post touches keyboard navigation and how to make it work with the example graph.
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Making graphs accessible on Android requires some work, and in this blog post series I explore how to do that. The first post is about adding content descriptions for, e.g., screen readers.
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In this blog post, I look at the challenges Android developers often face when it comes to developing accessible Android apps, and some proposed solutions from research.
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This blog post introduces a couple of modifiers, and how to use them to improve Android app accessibility.
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Not everyone likes animations - they might be distracting or even trigger symptoms like feeling sick or disoriented. There's a setting called reduced motion in different operating systems, and in this blog post, I'll talk about how to respect it on Android.
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