120 likes | 334 Views
#GHC13. Designing Accessible Mobile Applications. Sonia Sharma soniash@gmail.com @sonia1sh Oct, 2013. 2013. What is Accessibility ?. Visual. Hearing. motion. Visual. Empower Users. We don’t use all the senses every time. How? . Feedback in many ways sight (visual) hear (audio)
E N D
#GHC13 Designing Accessible Mobile Applications Sonia Sharma soniash@gmail.com @sonia1sh Oct, 2013 2013
What is Accessibility? Visual Hearing motion Visual
Empower Users We don’t use all the senses every time..
How? Feedback in many ways sight (visual) hear (audio) touch (haptic) taste Smell No taste and smell feedback in apps yet !
How: Visual Feedback Larger text Magnification Brightness controls Different themes and colors Captions to videos
How: Audio Feedback Audio tones Spoken meaningful feedback Support variable speeds Support many languages Support different accents
How: Touch Feedback Vibration feedback Support different devices: keyboards / braille device / D-pads Gesture support Design touch target sizes
How: User controls Let User decide
How: Test Simulate to test one type of feedback With real users that have accessibility needs
Take Away Give visual, audio, and touch feedback to users in your application and give them control to enable/disable the feedback.
Got Feedback? Rate and Review the session using the GHC Mobile App To download visit www.gracehopper.org soniash@gmail.com, soniash@google.com @sonia1sh