Reminder to enable Larger Accessibility Sizes, so you can pick from one of the five extra accessibility sizes when configuring text sizes. You can do it from Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text Size, and Larger Text.

You can enable 5 extra accessibility text sizes, called Large Accessibility Sizes, by going to Settings, Accessibility, Display & Text size, and Larger Text. There are drawings of that screen. It shows how when toggling the Large Accessibility Size on, it allows you to pick up from 5 sizes and it compares how the screen looks when the larger text size is selected when this option is on, and off.

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Sometimes, with large font sizes, there's no other way around it but to offer an alternative layout. Small tweaks are often enough. Otherwise, the text will be barely readable. Larger text shouldn't mean less content or a worse experience. One thing you can do is to check if the preferred content size category of a view is an accessibility category. And, in that case, move things around to make room for the text, offer more lines of text, etc. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicontentsizecategory/isaccessibilitycategory

Configuring the header accessibility trait, when appropriate, is one of my favourite accessibility quick wins. In this example, you need a single swipe down, instead of 12 swipes to the right to get to from Podcasts to Artists, in the app.

Today I want to share something I use a lot. You can convert any article into a “podcast” by enabling Speak Screen in Accessibility Settings, switching to Safari’s Reader Mode and swiping down with two fingers from the top of the screen. I think it is a good example of how if we all knew more about how to use the assistive tech available in iOS, we would find ourselves using more of them, more often, exemplifying quite well that accessibility benefits everyone.

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