Accessibility

The purpose of this library is to provide a unified way for accessibility features on Android on iOS.

All accessibility methods are available through the Accessibility class. Additionally, an accessibility property is added to all classes which inherit from View, Activity and Fragment.

Example:

Providing an accessibility label:

• on Android you would set contentDescription
• on iOS you would set accessibilityLabel

With this library you can can use accessibility.label on Android and iOS. The library calls the native methods.

Features

• View
  • label: set the accessibility label
  • action: set the accessibility action to announce
  • elements: set the order of accessibility elements
  • focus(): moves the accessibility focus to this view
• Activity/Fragment
  • elements: set the order of accessibility elements
  • announce(message): announces the provided message

Requirements

Minimum supported Android version is 5.0 (API 21)

Example

To run the example project, clone the repo, and open the project in Android Studio.

Adding to your project

To start using this library, add these lines to the build.gradle of your project:

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'nl.appt.accessibility:accessibility:<latest-version>'
}

Note: in the near future the library will be made migrated to Maven Central.

Author

Jan Jaap de Groot, janjaap@appt.nl

License

Accessibility is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.