Mobile Accessibility Rituals

The WCAG websites have been designed to guide the designers and developers to build perfectly accessible apps. However the guidelines are concentrated and packed with information. For a new person, trying to learn all the guidelines can get overwhelming, as they come with other information, such as success criteria, techniques, and change-logs.

If you try to print all of those out, that can fill 750+ pages!

This may keep the designer and designers from learning these, due to a psychological phenomenon called 'complexity aversion'. However, this is keeping all the people who rely on assistive technologies from using these apps.

Globally there are an estimated 258+ million people who have to rely on assistive technologies.

The book tries to simplify the complex terminologies and boils them down to simple rituals, that will increase the designers' and developers' workload by a few percent, but make the apps usable with assistive technologies. when it comes to making apps usable with accessibility, Done is better than perfect!

#doneisbetterthanperfect 

This book has been designed to be as simple and plain as possible. WCAG is overwhelming and often not directly translatable to mobile apps. Maintaining accessibility standards in the mobile app needs special adjustments. This book captures the experiences I have had while fixing the accessibility of apps and boils them down to simple rituals a team can follow to make the app usable with assistive technologies like TalkBack and VoiceOver. A sort of #MCAG !(Mobile Content Accessibility Guidelines) The methods prescribed are more practical approaches rather than focusing on the details. Just like when you go to a doctor with a sore throat, they do not tell you the physiology or biochemistry but say "Take these tablets twice a day and drink hot tea!"

Does this book guide designers to make the app 100% accessible? Of course not! But this book can provide the designers with a simplified ritual that can help them make the app accessible from the get-go, instead of relying on expensive post-development tests. 

The book starts off by discussing the theory of accessibility, a few statistics about people with disabilities, and the reasons behind it being 'not a priority'. The book includes chapters on upgrading the design systems, fixing the content, creating accessible logical blocks, intent-based design principles, and methods to simplify the handover processes. This book also discusses a few frugal tests designers can perform before the dev team invests their efforts in coding.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to create accessible mobile apps. Whether you're a designer, UI engineer, product manager, product owner, design system governance team member, or marketing folk, this book will teach you the simple rituals you need to follow to make your apps accessible to people with a range of visual impairments, including blindness.

Mobile accessibility is important because it allows people with disabilities to use mobile apps just like everyone else. When apps are accessible, people with disabilities can use them to stay connected with friends and family, learn new things, and manage their daily lives.

If you want to make your mobile apps accessible, this book is for you. You'll learn about the different types of disabilities that affect mobile users, how to test your apps for accessibility, and how to fix common accessibility issues in the design stage. You'll also learn about the business case for creating accessible mobile apps, such as increasing your user base, improving user satisfaction, and reducing support costs.