When used thoughtfully, hiding buttons from assistive technology users can make your app easier to understand and quicker to navigate.
Custom Accessibility Actions expose that functionality for VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Switch Control users
mobilea11y.com/blog/a11y-cu...
#SwiftUI #Accessibility
Quintin taking a selfie in front of a crowd in a medium sized room. The presentation title slide can be seen on the screen
Thank you and so long @androidmakers.bsky.social 2026! Thank you for hosting “Hack for good: Android accessibility testing with a flipper zero” - so much fun connecting with such a lovely and engaging crowd!
#android #accessibility
"SwiftUI is accessible by default" is one of the most repeated misconceptions in iOS development. I've heard it in conference talks, accessibility reports, and job interviews.
First post on Mobile A11y in 4 years.
mobilea11y.com/blog/swiftui...
#Accessibility #a11y #MobileA11y #SwiftUI #iosdev
It’s finally here!
Xarra! Read, listen (or both), to your articles and documents.
Download it from the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/xarra...
A hand holding an iPhone displaying Xarra, with the app's illustrated character icon shown large on screen and 'Welcome to Xarra' playing. In the background, the River Thames shimmers under a bright blue London sky.
Today is the day! 🎉 Xarra is here!
Import any article, document or text and listen to it while the text stays in sync on screen: read, listen, or both.
Launch offer: LAUNCH50Y (~50% off yearly), LAUNCHSAVE (~25–30% off lifetime)
apps.apple.com/gb/app/xarra...
#IndieApp #Accessibility #iOS
Screenshot of the Xarra! App Store listing. The subtitle: Turn text into audio. It says: coming soon, expected 26 Mar 2026. It offers a Get button and it discloses that it offers In-App Purchases. The icon shows an illustrated woman with blue hair surrounded by letters and document pages.
Xarra is my newest app! And you can hit the Get button now! The app will become available on the 26th of March. What is Xarra, I heard you ask? More about it in the thread 🧵
apps.apple.com/gb/app/xarra...
For the 142 that are following me...
First, thank you!
Second, I was laid off last week. I'd appreciate if you can share with your followers that I'm now open to opportunities and help increase my follower count.
More information about me: gerardkcohen.me/hire-me.html
Thanks, all 142 of you!
Speaker card for Android Makers by Droidcon. Talk title "Hack for good: Accessibility Testing with a Flipper Zero" with Quintin Balsdon, Technology Advocate at Evinced. April 9-10, 2026, Paris
I’m super excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at #AndroidMakers26 this year! I’ll be diving into hacking #Accessibility testing with a #FlipperZero - Join me on Friday the 10th at 11:30!
Registration: bit.ly/3NfTBCt
#A11y #Android
@droidcon.bsky.social
@androidmakers.bsky.social
Stevie Wonder holing an arcade stick and Quintin watching him play. There is a computer screen showing A11y Bird (an accessible version of Flappy bird)
Stevie Wonder played my game! Whoop whoop!
Today I learned I’m never trusting a raspberry pi for computation ever again
Honestly it’s the second best thing since the android debug bridge
That’s what Google keeps telling me
I’m here at an A.I. agent authoring event all by myself. “I’m not here to make friends” I think to myself.
Or am I…?
Accessibility is the process of making something usable and worthwhile
Dear TV, I don’t like spoilers, especially when I’m just about to start watching. Thanks.
We’re super excited to support #GameBlast26!
From February 27th to March 1st, the SEGA Stream Team will be fundraising for Special Effect to help make gaming more accessible 🧡
Stay tuned for more details and announcements coming soon 👀
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
accessibilityforeveryone.site
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Sure, it took me 8 months to get something working (in my spare time, mind you). But I got it. On their own or even as a pair, with all the documentation and references, they can't get a simple BLE Keyboard going.
This would be very interesting if the harm included accessibility defects
Why are we hiring so many designers?
I analysed 256 design system roles. The ratio of designers to engineers was telling. In my last team, we deliberately ran the inverse. If the biggest value comes from code, are we building design systems or just designing them?
Check the butter for footprints
*taps nose*
A response from Google Gemini: "I'm having a hard time fulfilling your request. Can I help you with something else instead?"
Even AI can't get a #raspberryPi to be in portrait mode... What hope do the rest of us have?
Follow us on YouTube and help us reach 10,000 subscribers! We’ll be starting to stream on YouTube in earnest from 2026 and would love to have you there!
www.youtube.com/gameonforeve...
I emailed @waterstones.bsky.social (United Kingdom) to ask if we can't get a pre order going there
Wait wait wait. It's 2025 and you can't extract links from cells in Google Sheets?
An image showing a screenshot from Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown with text that reads Motor Accessibility - GameAccess on the side.
For GameAccess we recently took a look at Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, that launched on mobile platforms following a PC and console release in 2024, which features a wide range of accessibility options!
Take a look at our breakdown of the controls here: gameaccess.info/prince-of-pe...
An app is trying to force me into a "free trial" with no mechanism to opt out. I can't complete the desired journey as a result. I do pay for use of the app already. Does anyone know where to report this kind of thing?
Meaningful conversation? Nah
There is something about the empty sincerity of "You're absolutely right!" from LLM's that is really starting to bug me...
Everyone loves mansplaining until customer support actively seeks it out
