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Provide unique and meaningful labels

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Provide unique and meaningful labels

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- [Instructor] Describing the user interface with unique and meaningful labels is a very important aspect of accessibility. In fact, this is one of the main sources of accessibility problems in software applications. When you don't provide unique and meaningful labels, you prevent screen reader users to perceive, understand, and use the application at all. Describing meaningful views is probably one of the simplest tasks to do for accessibility, and yet, it is a critical violation if not done correctly. First, let's define what's not meaningful. You don't have to describe every single view on your screen. Views that are decorative or redundant are examples of non-meaningful views. In short, if it doesn't describe the content or a control that the user would care about, then this view is not meaningful at all. For example, you don't have to describe the background image of your app. You also don't have to describe dividers between list items that are purely there for decorative…

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