Abstract

Making your app accessible is crucial to ensuring that a wide array of users can use your app to its fullest potential. However, for sighted users, accessibility is often a hidden layer. Because sighted users don’t interact with this representation of their app, its polish can sometimes fall out of sync with the rest of the app.

Validating that your accessible experiences are working the way you expect can often be an arduous process, sometimes even involving running your app on physical devices. Ensuring that those experiences don’t regress is even more of a challenge.

In this talk, Soroush will discuss tools for rapidly iterating on accessibility code, easily spotting bugs, and ensuring that accessible interactions stay working the way the way you expect, so that all your users can get the most out of your app.

Soroush Khanlou, Staff Software Engineer @ Sqaure

Soroush Khanlou is a New York-based iOS developer. He freelance for many years, for companies like Adobe, Betterment, and non-profits like Urban Archive, and now he works as an accessibility engineer at Square. He blogs about programming at khanlou.com. In his free time, he hikes, bakes bread and pastries, and collects suitcases.