Testing that your app is accessible to all
summary
Common misconceptions get challenged with numbers and runnable tools: about 1.3 billion (16%) of people have significant disabilities, and accessibility covers font sizes, contrast and semantics. An accessibility tools package provides toggles and an analyzer that highlights widgets without labels, which actually finds issues during development. Automated widget tests use Flutter guidelines to check 48×48 and 44×44 tappable sizes, semantic labels and contrast ratios, allow custom guideline code, and can run existing tests with flags like textScale=3.0 and animations off so failures reveal real regressions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00App accessibility testing intro
- 1:29Accessibility misconceptions
- 3:16Why accessibility testing matters
- 4:40Manual accessibility testing
- 6:05Automated testing with Flutter
- 8:53Custom accessibility guidelines
- 12:04Testing with accessibility flags
- 13:52Encouraging accessibility in dev
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