Enhancing Accessibility in SwiftUI: Effective Strategies
Make your apps inclusive with simple steps!
This guide complements our journey in making SwiftUI apps more user-friendly and inclusive. If you’re interested in SwiftUI development, don’t miss out on my other works, such as the SwiftUI Fundamentals covered on my GitHub page.
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This article has been developed using Xcode 15.0, and Swift 5.9
Terminology:
Accessibility: Refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.
SwiftUI: A framework by Apple for building user interfaces for all of its platforms.
View Modifier: A function in SwiftUI that changes the view’s display or other properties.
The background
In SwiftUI, accessibility settings are typically configured using the built-in accessibility modifiers, which are applied directly to views.
The three main methods we might use are:
- setting accessibility properties directly on the view
- passing accessibility values through an initializer
