Roasting Your App's Accessibility

So you want to make your app accessible? Do you have an idea where to start? What your low hanging fruit is? Why don’t I just take a look at your app and tell you — and make meaningful improvements that give you an idea how important it is to get this right? Then show it at work and off you go.

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1. Roasting Your App's Accessibility Bas Broek, Do iOS, 2025 iosdev.space/@bas basbroek.nl 1
2. Roasting Your App's Accessibility 2
3. Roasting Your App's Accessibility 3
4. Accessibility is improving an app for everyone 4
5. Tackling accessibility is a marathon, not a sprint 5
6. Migrating to Swift concurrency in one day? 6
8. Start yesterday 8
9. Not knowing what you don't know 9
10. How can we start yesterday? 10
11. Let's take a look at some examples 11
12. This is not an "audit" 12
13. The people behind the apps we look at gave me permission to do so — they are friends 13
14. We'll be looking at examples from two apps 14
16. Reading in your second language? Bouquino makes it feel like your first, by adapting the text to your reading level 16
17. I loved what I saw. 17
19. Do any of you have accessibility as part of your app's onboarding? 19
21. Has anyone used VoiceOver to navigate through their app? 21
23. Screen Curtain 23
25. I wish I could tell you how to fix this bug 25
27. Let's give Robin some feedback... 27
30. Button { // Upvote } label: { Image(systemName: "triangle.fill") } 30
31. Button { // Upvote } label: { Image(systemName: "triangle.fill") } .accessibilityLabel("Upvote") 31
32. Button { // Upvote } label: { Image(systemName: "triangle.fill") } .accessibilityLabel("Upvote") .accessibilityInputLabels([ "Upvote", "Vote" ]) 32
33. Button { // Upvote } label: { Image(systemName: "triangle.fill") } .accessibilityLabel("Upvote") .accessibilityInputLabels([ "Upvote", "Vote" ]) .accessibilityAdjustableAction { direction in switch direction { case .increment: // Upvote case .decrement: // Downvote } } 33
34. Ambre Your recipes, always available. 34
35. Grandma's recipe? Let's have grandma use the app. 35
40. VStack { Button("Check off step") {} HStack { Button("5min timer") {} Button("1min timer") {} } } .accessibilityAction { // perform check off step } label: { Label("Check off step", systemImage: "checkmark") } .accessibilityAction { /* 5min timer */ } .accessibilityAction { /* 1min timer */ } 40
42. Roasting myself. It seems only fair 42
44. Demo with Assistive Technologies. 44
45. Voice Control as a quick first check. 45
46. It's challenging. 46
47. And it will stay challenging. 47
48. There's something that we should expect not only of our watches, but also of ourselves: to never stand still. Walter Lange – 48
49. "Do not obsess with perfection; here or anywhere else for that matter" Chef John – 49
50. Start yesterday You know how to. 50
51. You can do this. 51
52. Thank you! Bas Broek iosdev.space/@bas basbroek.nl 52