Accessibility is about creating delightful, inclusive experiences that everyone can enjoy. But it's not about optional extras for your users. With the European Accessibility Act (EAA) set to be enforced from June 2025 regulation will now impact native apps for most businesses operating within the EU. Is your app ready?

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take an app from zero to accessible in UIKit and SwiftUI. By mastering essential APIs, techniques, and concepts, you’ll gain the tools to address common issues across most iOS apps. All of this will be knowledge you can take back to form an action plan to make your own apps accessible for users, and compliant with the law.

Topic we'll cover in this workshop:

- Accessibility: An overview of the EAA and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

- VoiceOver 101: Labels and Values, Traits, Semantic views: grouping and order and VoiceOver's "snowball effect": how VoiceOver improvements can enhance experiences for other assistive technologies

- Dynamic Type: Supporting Larger Text, Scaling images, Implementing adaptive layouts

- Best Practices: Alt text for images, Ensuring sufficient color contrast, Providing adequate touch target sizes, Multimodality, Honouring user settings"