Accessibility

Sony has released a new PlayStation 5 controller called the Access Controller, which is designed to be customizable for disabled gamers. It allows users to configure different buttons, triggers and sticks to suit their individual needs. The kit aims to help people who struggle with thumbsticks, pressing buttons, or holding a controller. Feedback from disabled gamers was incorporated into the design. While a step forward, some find issues like the lack of a right stick limits gameplay in certain genres. Overall though, the product and others like Microsoft's Adaptive Controller are helping make gaming more inclusive for disabled players.

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Here are some tips about how you can make accessibility tests for your iOS apps with some screen shots and code samples

Here are some tips to know so as to build accessible iOS apps in SwiftUI and UIKit, e.g. use of traits, notifications and zoom, with code samples.

I found this article fascinating, and wasn't expecting the initial part of it to talk about climate change, something I'd never considered about different filetypes. I kind of knew what I would expect to read about PDF vs HTML when it comes to accessibility, but interesting nonetheless.

Orange group keeps alive and available an interesting and very rich web site providing plenty of rules and advices about accessibility. The content targets iOS, Android, web and also other mediums.

The article discusses why developers commonly disable form buttons during submission to prevent duplicate requests, but how this creates accessibility issues. While disabling buttons may seem to prevent resubmission, users can still submit the form via keyboard. A better approach is to add a "data-submitting" attribute to the form during submission processing as this preserves focus without breaking functionality or accessibility.

The article also recommends including ARIA live regions and status messages to keep users informed.

Under free license GPL 2.0, this tool can be integrated in a web site as a library or used as a web browser extension.

It will change typography, layouts, Colors and behaviours of pages so as to try to make such pages more readable and usable for disabled users.