Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps: Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android

© Rob Whitaker 2020

R. WhitakerDeveloping Inclusive Mobile Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5814-9_1

1. Accessibility

Rob Whitaker¹ 

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Derby, UK

 

My interest in accessibility began back in 2010 while I was the manager of a small Apple reseller. A great privilege of working in technology retail is that you get to meet a vast range of people at different stages in their technology journey. Some customers ask original questions that take a great deal of research to find the right answer. Others have never touched anything you or I might call a “computer” before and are starting at the very beginning.

In June of 2010, Apple released the iPhone 4. After this, I began to notice the number of our customers coming into the store who used British Sign ...