A better inclusive and accessible design
Apple has always focused on providing a great experience, from the presentations to what it proposes for the developers. On the second day of the WWDC21 event, a theme that keeps coming back is the importance of a more inclusive and accessible design on all of the different application scopes.
It can even be seen in the language that we use and look for reference, respecting different perspectives, adopting more accessibility features, making our design more inclusive, especially in the area of content that includes writing, images, audio, video, it can be seen everywhere... everything we use to "talk" to our audience. 🗣🗣🗣
Despite being a topic of great importance, my main concern is that it makes us wonder if our products are in fact meeting these expectations as much as possible. ❤️
Below you can see the two sessions that talk more about it.
Bringing more accessibility features ✅
Dynamic type is not new. It's something that has been around since iOS 7, but its adoption by apps has been somewhat slow. Since iOS 11, Apple has been making significant improvements to the feature that should lead to wide-scale adoption.
Getting a little more technical... ⚙️🛠
Dynamic type supports up to seven size settings, but that's not the limit, for example, the body text style is 17pt in the default setting, but can range from 14pt to 23pt, and we can, in extreme cases count with the accessibility setting that supports even larger fonts up to 53pt for body text.
My mother ❤️is a great example of someone that is heavily dependent on this particular feature. Communication and social networking apps that have a lot of content in a very small screen real estate (iPhone screen) can take advantage of this and avoid losing any content due to the lack of space.
Does Tumblr handle Dynamic Type?
Tumblr allows us to share many different types of media in a single post. That makes the content super cool and unique, however, posts that have a lot of "regular" sized text, despite having good contrast (✨bonus points for Tumblr here!✨) still, readability can be compromised when compared to a wider range of users.
To make our vision even more inclusive when developing our apps, it's necessary to start by making the design process more inclusive as well. I'm sure this will affect the design and implementation of a good application. 📱
By: @victoriafaria
