Hi. I'm Rob.
I work as a senior iOS Engineer @ Cuvva, previously Capital One, 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
- Mobile accessibility consultant
- 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 and I still get to do coding
- Is for Lego
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
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. -
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
- Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility Issues
Workshop for iOSDevUK
Aberystwyth, Wales
September 2022
Past
-
Mobile Accessibility Testing
Remote talk/workshop for Spotify
May 2022 -
Next Level iOS Accessibility
Remote workshop for Try! Swift World
May 2022 -
Next Level iOS Accessibility
Remote talk for Sydney CocoaHeads
Video
slides
May 2022 -
Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility Issues
Remote workshop
June 2021 -
Mobile Accessibility Testing Tools
Remote talk held for Funka
May 2021 -
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.
- AppForce1: Rob Whitaker accessibilty author and workshop host
- Parallel 30: It's Like Playing Jazz
- iPhreaks 274: iOS Accessibility with Rob Whitaker
Projects
-
A11yUITests
An extension forXCTestCase
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