Add best practices for dealing with accessibility about ios-handbook

[marijnschilling]

Ha! I'm gonna setup some (loosely followable) guidelines for how we reply on things on Github and in slack, to avoid conversations like this 🔝

[3lvis]

Could you elaborate please?

[elland]

There was no mention of making the app accessible. I'd like to know what the procedure is.

[3lvis]

As far as I know we haven't done much regarding accessibility. Would be great to improve on this subject, I think doing UI testing could be a good first step.

That's one of the selling points of KIF:

KIF relies on the built-in accessibility of iOS to perform its test steps. As such, it's important that your app is fully accessible. This is also a great way to ensure that your app is usable by everyone. Giving your views reasonable labels is usually a good place to start when making your application accessible. More details are available in Apple's Documentation.

[3lvis]

Do you have any suggestions on what we could do to improve accessibility? Or in which specific areas we should focus on?

[elland]

If we're going to do UI testing, we pretty much have to make the app accessible. I think first step would be to turn on VoiceOver and try to use the app (if it's already done). For most cases, if the app uses standard components, it's a matter of tweaking some labels and adding/removing some UI elements of VO is active. Also colour consideration for different kinds of colour blindness, etc etc.

[3lvis]

• Accessibility coverage (?)

[3lvis]

• Custom Alert controllers NO

[3lvis]

• Use Action Sheets when possible

[3lvis]

• Use accessibility label for UIButtons

[elland]

And labels for images.

[3lvis]

You mean for UIImageView? Or for UIImage (is that even possible)?

[elland]

I'm surprised. 😄 UIImageVIew

[3lvis]

@elland what surprises you?

[elland]

The question. 👍

[3lvis]

🤦

[elland]

:dolan: