Introduction to Building Accessible Universal Windows Apps Sean Hayes

Make your app usable by the widest possible audience 6/25/2018 7:22 PM Make your app usable by the widest possible audience Windows accommodations that rely on Automation: Narrator (Blindness accommodation) Magnifier (Low vision accommodation) Windows Speech Recognition (Mobility accommodation) WebDriver (Test tool) Respect the users settings Colour preferences (High Contrast, Color theme) DPI aware (Provide highly scalable resources) Text sizing ( Don’t hard code margins and widths) Animations (Don’t run if user doesn’t want them) Timing (Respect time out setting) © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

What we will cover Using XAML elements appropriate to their behaviour Adding a Name to announce an element Sending events to the automation system Using appropriate events for XAML elements Respecting the users setting

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Automation Provider (your app) 6/25/2018 7:22 PM Automation Provider (your app) 90% of the work is done in the framework 10% App code responsibility Use the right semantic constructs Order your markup appropriately Provide information that the framework cannot deduce automatically Ensure that the expected events are hooked up Be aware of changes in UISettings and AccessibilitySettings © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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"I just want to say, …, that we need to make every single thing 6/25/2018 7:22 PM "I just want to say, …, that we need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability."  - Stevie Wonder © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.