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What would it be useful as an accessibility label on a mobile app? (self.Blind)
submitted by rodrigoelp
Hello dear community,
I decided to reach out to you to improve the accessibility of a product I work with.
Out apps are big on accessibility and I want to improve the user experience overall.
Some of the questions I want to find a answer from primary / experienced users:
1. Do you find useful when voiceover/talkback reads to you if you have entered the navigation bar? I am talking about something like "App settings navigation bar, Close button.", "App Home navigation bar"
2. If you don't like the option of reading the "navigation bar" elements, how would you discriminate between a "close button" to close the current screen vs a close button in the main app?
I decided to reach out to you to improve the accessibility of a product I work with.
Out apps are big on accessibility and I want to improve the user experience overall.
Some of the questions I want to find a answer from primary / experienced users:
1. Do you find useful when voiceover/talkback reads to you if you have entered the navigation bar? I am talking about something like "App settings navigation bar, Close button.", "App Home navigation bar"
2. If you don't like the option of reading the "navigation bar" elements, how would you discriminate between a "close button" to close the current screen vs a close button in the main app?
Fridux 3 points 2y ago
Personally I'm not a big fan of increased verbosity. iOS 14 already overdoes that by telling me whenever I enter the toolbar and I don't like that because it slows me down.
Regarding your questions, there's usually no "Close" button in the navigation bar. The left-pointing arrow in the top-left corner has the previous navigation view's title as a label and the description "Back button" as a hint by default, and the navigation bar item that usually appears at the top-right corner of the navigation views is usually named "Done".
One little detail that almost nobody gets right is auto-focusing the navigation bar title whenever a navigation view is either pushed to or popped from the navigation stack. SwiftUI does this automatically, but UIKit needs help.
Regarding your questions, there's usually no "Close" button in the navigation bar. The left-pointing arrow in the top-left corner has the previous navigation view's title as a label and the description "Back button" as a hint by default, and the navigation bar item that usually appears at the top-right corner of the navigation views is usually named "Done".
One little detail that almost nobody gets right is auto-focusing the navigation bar title whenever a navigation view is either pushed to or popped from the navigation stack. SwiftUI does this automatically, but UIKit needs help.
rodrigoelp [OP] 1 points 2y ago
You are right in a lot of the comments you have made (and I will take note on all of them). However, we do have some modal messages to display alarms and we are slowly removing this modality to something less intrusive for our users. Yet, these modal messages have a close button (which isn't really a navigational message, more like a dismiss).
We do automatically focus the view title whenever it is pushed or popped.
I would love to hear more of your comments on what behaviours you find annoying or intrusive that I could learn from to improve our products.
We want to provide a rich user experience and we know verbosity is an impediment to some of our users, the problem comes to understand (from the point of view of designers and product owners) when it is enough, too little or too much, you know what I mean?
We do automatically focus the view title whenever it is pushed or popped.
I would love to hear more of your comments on what behaviours you find annoying or intrusive that I could learn from to improve our products.
We want to provide a rich user experience and we know verbosity is an impediment to some of our users, the problem comes to understand (from the point of view of designers and product owners) when it is enough, too little or too much, you know what I mean?
bradley22 1 points 2y ago
But it’s not the designers who will be using the app every day.
I wonder if you can put it in settings as a toggoe?
I wonder if you can put it in settings as a toggoe?
rodrigoelp [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Precisely because the designers aren't going to using it every day is important to communicate with our users (or experienced users) to enrich our understanding. That's the reason I am reaching to this community.
bradley22 1 points 2y ago
ah ok, so can you add it as a toggle? Either announcing the things or not?
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Usually the close button for the app isn’t confused with the back or closed button if you are afraid it may you can lable them more specifically but it is usually not necessary.
1. Yes maybe useful but I generally know when I have or haven’t entered the navigation bar.
1. Yes maybe useful but I generally know when I have or haven’t entered the navigation bar.
rodrigoelp [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Sure any more questions feel free to ask.
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