Testing Android App Accessibility: Clue
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In Droidcon Berlin, I gave a talk in which I tested one app - Clue - from an accessibility perspective. This blog post summarizes the talk and results.
Read the Post »Android Accessibility Checklist
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As a part of my master's thesis, I developed an Android accessibility checklist. This blog post shares it, and a bit of about the development process.
Read the Post »Accessibility Considerations with Stacked Cards Custom Layout
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Cats are back! In this blog post, we'll look into accessibility considerations for the stacked cards layout.
Read the Post »Don't Lock the Screen Orientation! Handling Orientation in Compose
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Many Android apps are locked to portrait mode, and that is an accessibility problem. This blog post discusses how to support both oritentations for Android apps.
Read the Post »Accessibility Tests in Compose - Name, Role, Value
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In this blog post, we'll look into how to write tests for custom components for programmatically available name, role, and value.
Read the Post »Change App Theme - Personalizing Accessibility
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Let's continue the theme of personalizing your app for users for accessibility by adding a setting to change the app theme between system default, dark, light, and high-contrast themes.
Read the Post »Toggle Labels With Icons - Personalizing Accessibility
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Let's continue the theme of personalizing your app for users for accessibility by adding a setting to toggle labels with icons.
Read the Post »Personalizing Accessibility with Settings
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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.
Read the Post »Accessibility Checks with Jetpack Compose Previews
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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.
Read the Post »Why Your App Should Have Both Dark And Light Themes
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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.
Read the Post »Testing with Accessibility Scanner
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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.
Read the Post »Font Size Considerations for 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.
Read the Post »More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose Part 4: On-Screen Control Buttons
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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.
Read the Post »More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose Part 3: Differentiating without 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 third post is all about differentiating data by other means than color.
Read the Post »More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose Part 2: Adding Keyboard Interaction
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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.
Read the Post »More Accessible Graphs with Jetpack Compose Part 1: Adding Content Description
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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.
Read the Post »Android Developers and Accessibility - Challenges and Proposed Solutions
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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.
Read the Post »Improving Android Accessibility with Modifiers in Jetpack Compose
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This blog post introduces a couple of modifiers, and how to use them to improve Android app accessibility.
Read the Post »Results of Quick Testing of Documentation Tools' Accessibility
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I did a round of quick tests for four documentation tools: Swagger UI, Read the Docs, Docusaurus, and GitBook. In this blog post, I share the results of these tests.
Read the Post »Don't Set outline: 0 or outline: none for Focus-Styles
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Setting `outline`-property to 0 or none for focus styles creates accessibility problems. In this blog post, I share why.
Read the Post »My Advice to a Developer New to Accessibility
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Learning about accessibility for the first time can feel overwhelming. In this blog post, I'll share some advice I think a developer new to accessibility should learn.
Read the Post »On the Edge of Burnout... Again
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I've been super tired during the spring. Again. This blog post is about how I got further away from the edge of burnout and started finding myself - and the spark - again.
Read the Post »How Can Backend Developers Improve Accessibility?
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Backend developers can help with accessibility too! In this blog post, I will look at some practices backend developers can do to ensure the accessibility of the end product and documentation.
Read the Post »How Not to Create a Button
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I've seen so many wild ways of creating a button. Many of them don't work for all users, and in this blog post, I discuss some of them.
Read the Post »Aria-Label is Not Always the Answer
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Aria-label is a handy tool when there is a need to, for example, add more context for a link to screen-reader users. However, it doesn't work with all HTML elements. In this blog post, I discuss its usage.
Read the Post »First Month as an Accessibility Specialist at Oura
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I joined Oura Health a little over a month ago in October. In this blog post, I'll share some initial thoughts and feelings from the past month.
Read the Post »Thoughts From Reading Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
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I read Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau, and it is a fantastic book. In this blog post, I share some thoughts from reading it.
Read the Post »Don't Develop Just for Yourself - A Developer's Checklist to Accessibility
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We, as developers, tend to develop sites unconsciously for people like us. This often means a sighted mouse user, who has good fine motor skills. I'll share some checks a developer can do while developing to ensure a bit more accessible sites or apps.
Read the Post »Let's Talk About Accessibility
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Raising awareness of accessibility is important. I mean, if we, who are creating the web, aren't aware of these things, how sites and apps we do could be accessible?
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