Accessibility of Mobile Apps
A CSAIL Project @ MIT
Helping Developers Make Accessible Mobile Apps
- Native Mobile Accessibility Guidelines, Legislation and Resources
- Accessible UI Recommendations
- iOS and Android Accessibility API Tutorials and Techniques
- AMA Library for extending Android App Accessibility
Our Mission
We hope to transform native mobile development for accessibility by providing resources and tools for developers and designers.
Our Team
We are four computer science undergraduate students at MIT with a passion for accessibility and UI design, specifically in the areas of Android and iOS.
Open Source
All parts of this project are open source and available to all developers. We hope to encourage innovation in accessible design for a better world.
-Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
Designed to be used with a keyboard
All actionable controls are hand-picked to support keyboard usage
WCAG 2.0 AA
"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the internet. They consist of a set of guidelines for making content accessible, primarily for people with disabilities, but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as mobile phones..." (source: Wikipedia).
Section 508
"...Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals..." (source: Wikipedia).
Accessible+
Accessibility Helper Menu
Compliant HTML
Collaborators
