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MOBILE DEVICES CURRENTLY PROVIDE THE MOST ADVANCED ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

Mobile Accessibility

Mobile Accessibility is an emerging and expanding area.  The DCP team works closely with the Mobile Apps teams on all of the MWS created apps.  We work with purchasing at both the UCLA and UC system level to help assess the accessibility of mobile app products.   The DCP team is available to work with faculty and staff to assess a mobile app for accessibilty before deciding to purchase it, or publish it.  We especially encourage faculty using publically available apps to reach out before using something in their course work.

Questions to Assess the Accessibility of a Mobile App:

  1. Please describe your accessibility testing process on mobile devices including IOS and Android?
  2. Do you perform accessibility testing on IOS and Android?
  3. Are the buttons and other targets in your app(s) 44 pixels or more in each direction?
  4. Describe your testing using screen reader
  5. Can you navigate your apps with the screen turned off using only gesture controls provided by Apple VO and Android Talk Back?
  6. Does your app(s) have sufficient color contrast of at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text?
  7. Are there any timeouts programmed in your app(s), and if yes, is there a way for a user to extend the time?
  8. Are all videos and audio media in your app(s) captioned and transcribed?
  9. Are there any images of text in your application(s)?
  10. Are all images alt tagged?
  11. Are all form controls appropriately labeled?
  12. Do all standard controls such as radio buttons and checkboxes have ARIA States such as aria-checked, aria-disabled, aria-selected, aria-expanded, and aria-pressed.
  13. Do headings adhere to a hierarchical structure?
  14. Is the pinch-to-zoom functional?
  15. Are all error messages spoken aloud for screen reader users?
  16. Does each page in your app(s) have a unique and meaningful title?
  17. Does your app(s) have a logical focus order?
  18. Do all modal dialogs in your app(s) appropriately manage focus so that screenreader users do not get stuck?
  19. Does your app(s) allow users to enlarge the font size?