Building a considerate app
summary
Argues that making apps accessible increases users and revenue, demonstrating concrete fixes: use VoiceOver attributes like UIAccessibilitySpeechAttributeSpellOut, IPA and punctuation attributes to make 98110 and “3 BD 4 BA 3,613 sqft” speak clearly; detect truncation by measuring label bounds and switch to a dynamic type vertical layout for accessibility sizes (titles jump to ~53pt); notes Nordstrom and Trulia mistakes, shows sample code, cites smartphone (≈82%) and corrective-lens (53–75% by age) stats and the Domino’s accessibility lawsuit.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:08accept a user, including Considerate their limitations, while
- 6:36Making the case for Considerate Apps
- 11:4153% of Americans 18-44
- 15:19Dynamic Type Voice over
- 27:21Taking advantage of Dynamic Type
- 35:00Your next steps
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