If you use Color Sets in the Assets Catalog to define your color palette, make sure you enable variants for the Any, Light and Dark appearances and also High Contrast. You'll be able to define variations of the color that have better contrast.
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You can enable the possibility of providing assets for different appearances including light/dark modes and high contrast. As we've seen, that's valid for colors, but you can do the same for images too! https://x.com/dadederk/status/1594724075590619138?s=20&t=XJrlJiGSCTR9sJC7XPZPjA
With accessibilityRepresentation(representation:), you can create a custom component and it can be perceived by assistive technologies as the view you pass as representation. No need to manually configure accessibility attributes. It is one of the most interesting additions to SwiftUI to help you develop accessible UI components. If your custom component behaves similarly to a native one, this is the way to go. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/accessibilityrepresentation(representation:)
Sometimes we may fail to convey to the user of things changing on the screen in a perceivable way. Toasts and similar should be announced. We may want to make clear that some content on the screen changed. Or we might want to update on progress.
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