Apkia

iOS Accessibility Consultancy and Apps Development Services

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Partnering in inclusive Mobile Application development and testing. We provide audits, remediation guidance, and custom development for iOS, watchOS, visionOS, Even Realities, Rokid and Memo Mind Smart Glasses applications and ensure compliance with WCAG, EAA, and ADA standards.

iOS Accessibility Development Services

We build new, and migrate existing, iOS (Swift/SwiftUI/UIKit/Objective-C/Flutter) applications to be fully compliant with WCAG guidelines including:

WCAG 2.2 AA European Accessibility Act (EAA) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) WAI-ARIA compliance EN 301 549 compliance EU Directive 2016/2102 AgID accessibility guidelines (Italy) Ley 11/2023 (Spain) VPAT/ACR - Revised Section 508, and EN 301 549 Generating VPAT/ACR - Voluntary Product Accessibility Template/Accessibility Conformance Report (covers WCAG, Revised Section 508, and EN 301 549) for Mobile apps (iOS/Android)

Standard Compliance

  • WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • EAA: European Accessibility Act
  • ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act
  • WIA-ARIA compliance W3C Link

Remediation Capabilities

  • VoiceOver accessibility labels and hints
  • Contrast ratio verification (minimum 1:4.5)
  • Large Content Viewer for custom controls
  • Custom Rotors for efficient text navigation
  • Snapshot testing for dynamic font sizes

iOS Accessibility Quality Assurance (QA) / Testing

We offer Quality Assurance services by auditing you existing Apps or Codebase to diagnose accessibility issues and suggest improvements in order to improve User Experience (UX). This auditing ensures that your Apps do not exclude the users who have different abilities or interact with their devices in certain different ways. We ensure the content of the Apps is POUR: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust. We provide in-depth QA services for mobile apps focused on accessibility testing criteria such as :

Manual & Automated Audits Accessibility UI Testing Unit Testing UI Testing
  • Conformance with WCAG 2.2 AA standards
  • Compliance with EAA and ADA legal frameworks
  • Automated and manual testing of VoiceOver, Dark Mode, Landscape Mode, Switch Controls and Color contrast
  • Receive actionable audit reports and support through remediation
  • Clear bug reports, test plans and test cases in JIRA, Google sheets or relevant tools

For Auditing we rely on Manual and Automation Testing (covered via Automated UI tests to detect the Accessibility issues).
We can also recommend and implement tools like Evinced SDK to discover accessibility issues which are hard to detect using Manual or Automation tests.

Accessibility guidelines resource:
UK Home Office Accessibility Posters

Contact Us

Email: contact@apkia.co.uk | Phone: +44 204 582 0168

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