114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage

Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like being an engineering manager at Apple.

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Links

• VoiceOver
• Voice Control
• Dynamic Type
• PSPDFKit’s blog post about Dynamic Type
• Defining accessibility labels
• Accessibility traits
• WWDC session about custom accessibility actions
• WWDC session about using AXCustomContent
• isReduceMotionEnabled
• prefersCrossFadeTransitions
• shouldDifferentiateWithoutColor
• SwiftUI’s accessibilityElement modifier
• Audio graphs
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk