Day 174

Spotlight: Jordi Bruin and Navi

8 Nov 2022

Meet @jordibruin developer of Navi (and other great apps) and organizer of @swiftuiseries (with an accessibility category). Navi is sadly not available anymore but it was worth an Apple Design Awards nomination. It added subtitles to FaceTime!

Drawing of Jordi's Twitter profile picture, Navi's icon, and a screenshot where you can see the app in action: a Facetime call and Jordi says

Some of you have asked me how you can support what I do. This would really help, and would be hugely appreciated:

  • Find these posts useful? Share them at work, on social media, or with anyone that might find them interesting. Let's spread the word!

  • Check out any of my apps or games: Xarra!, RetroRapid!, or Mestre!.

    • A download and a review go a long way. They're free by default. On the App Store, ratings and reviews really help more people discover them.

    • Finding any of them useful? If so, and if you can afford it, purchasing lifetime access to all features or subscribing lets me buy the coffee that keeps me caffeinated. Caffeine keeps me going to maintain the apps, bring in new features that I hope you'll love, and keep writing.

You may also find interesting...

In SwiftUI you won't find the .notEnabled accessibility trait. Instead, you can just configure a view as such with .disabled(true), and pass false to enable it. VoiceOver will announce it as "dimmed". https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/disabled(_:)

With regular buttons from UIKit or SwiftUI, you are all set. With complex views, headings, or table/collection view cells that, when selected, bring the user somewhere else in the app or perform an action, you'll have to add the button trait.

In SwiftUI there is a very useful modifier accessibilityElement(children:), that will do very different things depending on the AccessibilityChildBehavior passed as a parameter. There are three options: ignore (default), contain, and combine.


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