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VoiceOver user testing

VoiceOver user testing - iOS Tutorial

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VoiceOver user testing

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- [Instructor] In the last video, we looked at Apple's Accessibility Inspector. A tool that helps us quickly and efficiently find the accessibility problems in our app. It gave us good feedback and highlighted a few problem areas but it didn't catch everything. When designing and developing for accessibility, it's important we test our apps using actual assisted technologies like VoiceOver and Switch Control. It's really the best way to get a feel for how our app will perform when driven by an assisted technology. VoiceOver and Switch Control are not available while using the simulator. So I'll be using an actual device. The first thing we'll want to do is create accessibility shortcuts to make it easy to turn VoiceOver and Switch Control on or off. These shortcuts can be selected by simply triple clicking the Home button. Go to Settings, General, Accessibility. Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap Accessibility Shortcut. Put a check mark by VoiceOver and Switch Control. Head back…

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