Accessible Apps Guideline (Dec 2024)
Date Published: 01 December 2024
The guideline provides best practices to ensure digital accessibility in mobile apps and websites for all users, including people with disabilities and the elderly.
Key Points:
- Who it’s for: Developers, designers, project managers, decision makers, and accessibility specialists.
- Main Goals: Equal access, inclusion, usability, and compliance with global standards (WCAG 2.1).
- For Mobile Apps: Use alternative text, avoid color-only cues, ensure readable labels, proper button sizes, simple gestures, system components, clear language, and accessible UI.
- For Websites: Provide text alternatives, captions, multiple sensory options, semantic structure, easy navigation, clear link texts, form guidance, keyboard support, visual contrast, and control over time, text size, and multimedia.
- Testing: Automated tools (e.g., Accessibility Scanner, Lighthouse) + real user testing with people with disabilities.
Overall: A roadmap for developers to create accessible, user-friendly apps and websites that support inclusion and comply with international standards.
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