114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 12 min
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Episode description
Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like being an engineering manager at Apple.
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- VoiceOver
- Voice Control
- Dynamic Type
- PSPDFKit’s blog post about Dynamic Type
- Defining accessibility labels
- Accessibility traits
- WWDC session about custom accessibility actions
- WWDC session about using AXCustomContent
- isReduceMotionEnabled
- prefersCrossFadeTransitions
- shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor
- SwiftUI’s accessibilityElement modifier
- Audio graphs
- Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk
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