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Apple introduced several new accessibility features in SwiftUI at WWDC 2024. Here are some highlights:
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Built-in Accessibility Support: SwiftUI provides built-in accessibility out of the box, making it easier to create accessible apps across Apple platforms. This includes support for technologies like VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Switch Control (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).
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Accessibility Elements: SwiftUI creates accessibility elements as one of its primary outputs. These elements represent one or more views and provide attributes to describe the contents of a view and actions for interaction (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).
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Combining Views for Better Navigation: The
accessibilityElement(children: .combine)modifier allows developers to combine multiple views into a single accessibility element, improving navigation for users (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI). -
Custom Actions with App Intents: Accessibility action modifiers now accept an app intent, which can perform specific actions and update widgets. For example, marking a beach as a favorite or taking a photo with a double tap (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).
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Enhanced Interactions: SwiftUI supports building accessible rich interactions from taps to drag and drop, making it easier to provide additional information to accessibility technologies (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).
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Conditional Modifier Support and App Intent-Based Actions: New features include conditional modifier support and app intent-based accessibility actions, allowing for more dynamic and context-aware accessibility enhancements (What’s new in SwiftUI).
For a deeper dive into these features, you can watch the sessions:
What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.
What’s new in privacy
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. Learn about new and improved permission flows and other features that manage data in a privacy-preserving way, so that you can focus on creating great app experiences.
Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI
SwiftUI makes it easy to build amazing experiences that are accessible to everyone. We’ll discover how assistive technologies understand and navigate your app through the rich accessibility elements provided by SwiftUI. We’ll also discuss how you can further customize these experiences by providing more information about your app’s content and interactions by using accessibility modifiers.