Whats new in accessibility

At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced several new features and improvements in accessibility, particularly focusing on SwiftUI. Here are some key highlights:

1. Built-in Accessibility Support: SwiftUI provides built-in accessibility support for its views, making it easier to create accessible apps. This includes creating accessibility elements that are fundamental for technologies like VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Switch Control (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).

2. Accessibility Elements: Accessibility elements represent one or more views and provide attributes to describe the contents and actions of a view. This allows accessibility technologies to interact with the app content effectively (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).

3. Combining Views for Better Navigation: SwiftUI allows combining multiple views into a single accessibility element to improve navigation. This can be particularly useful for simplifying complex interfaces (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).

4. Custom Actions with App Intents: Accessibility action modifiers now accept app intents, enabling custom actions that can update widgets and perform specific tasks with simple gestures like double taps (Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI).

5. Enhanced Interactions: SwiftUI has introduced new features such as conditional modifier support and app intent-based accessibility actions, enhancing the interactivity and accessibility of apps (What’s new in SwiftUI).

For a deeper dive into these features, you can watch the sessions:

• Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI
• What’s new in SwiftUI

These sessions provide comprehensive insights into how you can leverage SwiftUI's new accessibility features to create more inclusive and user-friendly apps.