Developers and designers of mobile applications must always focus on ensuring accessibility for vision and hearing impaired users. This article will offer some checklists you should complete to ensure your application is more accessible.
While working on any app, users rely on touchable controls. The controls should have appropriate size and be easily visible. Your app should have controls with a minimum of 48dp in length as well as width. It is approximately equal to 9mm and recommended for controls for which a user can select or take an action.
In the below figures, you can see the correct and incorrect ways of sizing buttons.
EditText is a control which configures itself to be editable. For ensuring accessibility, add an android:hint attribute for EditText fields. Adding the attribute will help users in understanding what content is written when the text field is empty. The content of the android:hint attribute can be spoken.
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by Amit Diwan via SitePoint
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