Bas’ Blog

Accessibility Custom Content was introduced back in the 2020 releases “[to deliver] accessibility information from complex data sets to your users in measured portions.”

We’re lucky that on iOS, recording the sound output of VoiceOver does not require extra steps.

You may have used or tried out using a screen reader on a mobile device, but what about on a desktop?

In ‘Building an Accessibility Culture, One Step at a Time’, a presentation I recently gave at Swift Connection and SwiftLeeds, I spoke about “making accessibility accessible”.

I’ve spoken about the layering system in accessibility, with VoiceOver support being a good first step toward supporting Voice Control, and Voice Control in turn being a good start in supporting Full Keyboard Access.

At WWDC24, Apple introduced Swift Testing, which is a new way to write tests in Swift, practically replacing XCTest for unit tests.

I’ve been meaning to explore Assistive Access, a new accessibility feature announced a few days ahead of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Let’s take a look at how we can use macOS’s assistive technologies, like VoiceOver and Voice Control, as well as Hover Text, to more easily check some accessibility in the simulator, without having to deal with the (shortcomings of) the Accessibility Insp…

We programmers have — most likely — all fixed a bunch of bugs in our time.

Recently, I’ve been working on making a custom tab bar in our app accessible.