Create with Swift at Swift Heroes 2023
This article will get you started with material created for our session on Make it for Everyone at Swift Heroes 2023.
On May 4th and 5th, the Swift Heroes 2023 was held in Turin, Italy. Domenico De Luca and Pasquale Vittoriosi were speakers at the conference and presented a session about the importance of making your applications accessible and how to ensure that they work well with iOS assistive technologies, called "Make it for Everyone".
The session highlighted the importance of making accessible apps, what to consider while designing an app to ensure accessibility and showcased how easy it is to take advantage of the accessibility features of iOS with SwiftUI.
The session covered the following:
- Which are the domains of accessibility and why should you consider accessibility when designing and developing applications.
- The thoughtful usage of color, shapes, and symbols when designing application interfaces.
- Accessibility settings like Increase Contrast and Dynamic Type and what to consider to support them.
- How Voice Over works and how to use modifiers to support assistive technologies when creating interfaces with SwiftUI.
- How to run an accessibility audit on your application interface using the Accessibility Inspector.
Resources
There are several resources mentioned in the presentation, most from official Apple guidelines and resources. The following bibliography was used as a reference to core concepts about accessibility:
- World Health Organization - Disability and Health
- Wayfinding - People, Signs, and Architecture by Paul Arthur, Romedi Passini
- Human Interface Guidelines - Color
- Developer Documentation - Accessibility Modifiers
- Developer Documentation - EnvironmentValues
Some articles on Create with Swift may serve as a reference to get you started if you want to explore the topic on your own:
- Using Colors and Contrast Ratio to ensure Visual Accessibility
- Supporting Increase Contrast in your App to enhance Accessibility
- Testing your app's accessibility with the Accessibility Inspector
This article is part of a series of articles derived from the presentation "Make it for everyone" presented at the Swift Heroes 2023 conference on May 04-05, 2023.