Day 67

24 Jul 2022

Custom actions work as great on Switch Control as they do in VoiceOver. It makes navigation much, much, faster and you’ll be able to find all those custom actions in the Switch Control menu.

Twitter app is open. Switch Control is on and the cursor is on top of the first tweet in the timeline. Switch Control's menu is being shown and in there you can find the main actions you'd expect to perform on a tweet: reply, retweet, like or share, among others. Making navigation and interaction much faster than if we were not grouping tweets as single accessibility elements and moving actions to custom actions.

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@NSSpain has a great history of having amazing accessibility talks in their schedule! “Accessibility in the Real World”, by @Sommer: https://vimeo.com/235317172 “How to build an app for everyone”, by @NovallSwift: https://vimeo.com/362163043 The super fun "Choose your own SwiftUI adventure - 3 Accessibility", by @twostraws and @PinkerStraws: https://vimeo.com/481768105 And, of course, this year's great "Bas: My Accessibility Story", by @basthomas: https://vimeo.com/751176747

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