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Susan Hewitt, Accessibility Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services

How’s your mobile? Importance of Mobile Applications in Accessibility. Susan Hewitt, Accessibility Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services. The Rise of Mobile. 58% of Americans own a smart phone 34% of them use it as their primary means of accessing the Internet

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Susan Hewitt, Accessibility Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services

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  1. How’s your mobile? Importance of Mobile Applications in Accessibility Susan Hewitt, Accessibility Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services

  2. The Rise of Mobile • 58% of Americans own a smart phone • 34% of them use it as their primary means of accessing the Internet • 47% of low-income Americans use it as their primary means of accessing the internet (Pew Research Center)

  3. How is This Important to People With Disabilities? • Since 2009, reported mobile usage has increased by 60% to a reported total of 82% of people with visual impairments. • Users with motor control impairments report 58% reporting accessing the internet via mobile devices. (WebAIM)

  4. It’s Not Just Numbers Video: Bill Herzler, Assistive Technology Unit, DARS (Link will open in browser window.)

  5. How Mobile Devices Assist… • Visually-Impaired • Screen-readers • Speech-to-Text • GPS navigation • Cameras • Ability to magnify screens & high contrast modes • Support of external devices • Hearing-Impaired • Vibration and LED flashes • Subtitles and captions • Hearing aid support

  6. How Mobile Devices Assist… • Motor-Impaired • Speech-to-Text • Assistive touch and custom gestures • External switch device support • Fingerprint recognition

  7. How Mobile Devices Assist… • Cognitive-impaired • Apps to assist the non-verbal • Productivity and organization tools • Ability to disable features • Screen reading

  8. Let’s Get Technical How does all this work?

  9. Mobile Content: Pick Your Poison Native Apps HTML

  10. Responsive Design is Responsible Design

  11. Target Chooses to Optimize Google Nexus tablet Samsung s5 Galaxy Phone

  12. And They Show the Pluses of Native Mobile Browser Native App

  13. The BBC is Responsive Desktop Nexus Tablet iPhone

  14. Dept of Veteran’s Affairs Has 99 Problems Desktop Browser Mobile Browser

  15. And Their Mobile is Definitely One Desktop Browser Mobile Browser

  16. The Great Device War Who does what and how well

  17. “Apple got it right and everybody’s scrambling to catch up.” -Bill Herzler, Assistive Technology Unit, DARS

  18. Usage by OS Visually-Impaired Motor Control-Impaired iOS – 35% Android – 24% iOS -65% Android – 16% (WebAIM)

  19. iOS - VoiceOver Voice Over announces info on items with focus. Voice Over features a rotor function. Settings for Voice Over.

  20. Android - TalkBack Firefox allows navigation options like iPhone’s rotor. TalkBack’s context menu The Galaxy’s TalkBack settings

  21. iOS - Magnification & Contrast iPhone with magnification iPhone with colors inversed

  22. Android - Magnification & Contrast Samsung Galaxy’s color settings Android’s magnification settings

  23. There’s an App for That! – Visually-Impaired • LookTel Money Reader • Color ID • VizWiz • Audible • Lyft • Capitol Metro Tap TapSee BlindSquare

  24. iOS - For the Hearing-Impaired Using Facetime for sign lanugauge conversation. iPhone’s hearing-impaired settings

  25. Android - For the Hearing-Impaired Android’s hearing settings Android’s caption settings Galaxy’s auto-haptic settings

  26. There’s an App for That! – Hearing-Impaired • Dragon Dictation • Tap Tap • CapTel • SoundAMP • Netflix Z5 Mobile P3 Mobile

  27. iOS - Motor Control Accessibility iPad and switch control iPhone’s assistive touch menu

  28. Android - Motor Control Accessibility Samsung Galaxy’s motor control settings

  29. There’s an App for That! – Motor Control-Impaired Rocket Keys Panther Connect

  30. For the Cognitive-Impaired • Naming TherAppy • Spaced Retrieval TherAppy • Attainment’s Social Success Proloquo2go PlanIt

  31. And The Other Guys Blackberry WindowsPhone

  32. Mobile accessibility standards What does the law say?

  33. The Rules • Section 508 • References mobile in ?? • TAC • References mobile in?? • WCAG 2.0 • References mobile in…theory

  34. Grow Your Own

  35. What are your next steps? • Include mobile in your accessibility policy • Commit to mobile accessibility across your organization • Do it today

  36. Resources • HHS EIR Mobile Accessibility policy • HHS EIR Software, websites and applications checklist (Excel) • BBC’s Mobile Accessibility Guidelines • AppleVis • Bridging Apps • W3C Mobile Web Best Practices

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