Accessibility element

How to develop accessible iOS apps

Jeroen de Vrind
Short Swift Stories
5 min readJul 4, 2020

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When a user navigates your app with an assistive technology, the interface is not the same as the one visible on the screen. They navigate a modified version that iOS creates, called the accessibility tree or Accessibility UI (AUI).

The difference between SwiftUI and UIKit is how iOS creates the AUI. In UIKit, iOS builds the visual interface…

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Jeroen de Vrind
Short Swift Stories

iOS Engineer at ABN Amro bank. Author of How to develop accessible iOS apps.