Hi. I'm Rob.

I work as a senior iOS Engineer @ Capital One UK and I'm a mobile accessibility specialist. (He/Him)

TLDR

• Book
• App Store
• Blog
• Email: rw@rwapp.co.uk
• Twitter: RobRWAPP

Tech Interests

• Accessibility
• Cyber security
• User experience
• Testing

Non-tech Interests

• Hiking
• Nature
• Quiz
• Lego

My Career

• Senior iOS Engineer
• Self-taught career changer
• Past experience on small contracts
• My own apps are available in the App Store

What's Next?

I'm not looking for anything new right now, but I'd be interested in hearing from you if the role

• Is for a mobile accessibility specialist but I still get to do coding
• Is for Lego
• Is in the Vancouver, BC area and you'll help me relocate

Writing

• I mainly blog at MobileA11y.com about mobile accessibility
• Wrote a book Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps: Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android published by Apress
• I occasionally write on Medium and my blog

Here's a selection of my favorite/most popular blogs

• SwiftUI Accessibility
  A series of guides covering all the accessibility APIs in SwiftUI.

• Writing Great iOS Accessibility Labels
  This is part of a series on iOS accessibility labels, this part gives you all the tips you need to write the most useful labels you can.

• You Don’t Need to Be Good at Maths to Make Software
  About how I thought I couldn't be a software engineer because I suck at maths.

• Baking Digital Inclusion Into Your Mobile Apps
  Why making accessibility part of your regular development flow is the right thing to do, for Capital One Tech

• Robot Pattern Testing for XCUITest
  Using the Robot pattern for writing composable UI tests for iOS, for Capital One Tech

Speaking & Workshops

I'm available to speak and run workshops on mobile accessibility, if that fits in with your conference or org, hmu.

Upcoming

Lol

Past

• Accessibility in Mobile
  Remote workshop held for Ecosia
  July 2020

• Accessibility in SwiftUI
  CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
  Video
  March 2020

• The Route to an RNIB Certified iOS App
  CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
  March 2020

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  NSManchester, Manchester, England
  October 2019

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  SWMobile, Bristol, England
  Video
  September 2019

• Accessibility in SwiftUI
  iOSDevUK, Aberystwyth, Wales
  September 2019

• Panel member, iOS development Q&A
  iOSCon, McLean, VA
  August 2019

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  CodeMobile, Chester, England
  Video
  Slides
  April 2019

• A Swift Testing Journey
  CodeMobile, Chester, England
  April 2019

• A Swift Testing Journey
  iOSDevUK, Aberystwyth, Wales
  September 2018

Podcasts

I love talking about mobile accessibility get in touch if you think your listeners would like to know more.

• Parallel 30: It's Like Playing Jazz
• iPhreaks 274: iOS Accessibility with Rob Whitaker

Projects

• A11yUITests
  An extension for XCTestCase to add common accessibility checks to XCUITests

• A11y Box Android
  An app highlighting the Android accessibility APIs

• A11y Box iOS
  An app highlighting the iOS accessibility APIs

Contact

• Twitter: RobRWAPP
• Email: rw@rwapp.co.uk
• Linkedin