Susan Hewitt, Accessibility Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services HOW’S YOUR MOBILE? IMPORTANCE OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS IN ACCESSIBILITY

The Rise of Mobile 58% of Americans own a smart phone 34% of them use it as their primary means of accessing the Internet 47% of low-income Americans use it as their primary means of accessing the internet (Pew Research Center)

Since 2009, reported mobile usage has increased by 60% to a reported total of 82% of people with visual impairments. Users with motor control impairments report 58% reporting accessing the internet via mobile devices. How is This Important to People With Disabilities? (WebAIM)

Video: Bill Herzler, Assistive Technology Unit, DARS (Link will open in browser window.) It’s Not Just Numbers

How Mobile Devices Assist… Visually-Impaired Screen-readers Speech-to-Text GPS navigation Cameras Ability to magnify screens & high contrast modes Support of external devices Hearing-Impaired Vibration and LED flashes Subtitles and captions Hearing aid support

How Mobile Devices Assist… Motor-Impaired Speech-to-Text Assistive touch and custom gestures External switch device support Fingerprint recognition

How Mobile Devices Assist… Cognitive-impaired Apps to assist the non-verbal Productivity and organization tools Ability to disable features Screen reading

Let’s Get Technical How does all this work?

Mobile Content: Pick Your Poison HTMLNative Apps

Responsive Design is Responsible Design

Target Chooses to Optimize Google Nexus tabletSamsung s5 Galaxy Phone

And They Show the Pluses of Native Native App Mobile Browser

The BBC is Responsive DesktopiPhoneNexus Tablet

Dept of Veteran’s Affairs Has 99 Problems Desktop BrowserMobile Browser

And Their Mobile is Definitely One Desktop BrowserMobile Browser

The Great Device War Who does what and how well

“ Apple got it right and everybody’s scrambling to catch up.” - Bill Herzler, Assistive Technology Unit, DARS

Usage by OS Visually-ImpairedMotor Control-Impaired iOS – 35% Android – 24% iOS -65% Android – 16% (WebAIM)

iOS - VoiceOver Voice Over announces info on items with focus. Voice Over features a rotor function. Settings for Voice Over.

Android - TalkBack Firefox allows navigation options like iPhone’s rotor. TalkBack’s context menuThe Galaxy’s TalkBack settings

iOS - Magnification & Contrast iPhone with magnificationiPhone with colors inversed

Android - Magnification & Contrast Android’s magnification settings Samsung Galaxy’s color settings

There’s an App for That! – Visually-Impaired Tap TapSee LookTel Money Reader Color ID VizWiz Audible Lyft Capitol Metro BlindSquare

iOS - For the Hearing-Impaired iPhone’s hearing-impaired settings Using Facetime for sign lanugauge conversation.

Android - For the Hearing-Impaired Android’s hearing settings Android’s caption settings Galaxy’s auto-haptic settings

There’s an App for That! – Hearing-Impaired Z5 Mobile P3 Mobile Dragon Dictation Tap CapTel SoundAMP Netflix

iOS - Motor Control Accessibility iPhone’s assistive touch menu iPad and switch control

Android - Motor Control Accessibility Samsung Galaxy’s motor control settings

There’s an App for That! – Motor Control-Impaired Rocket Keys Panther Connect

For the Cognitive-Impaired PlanIt Naming TherAppy Spaced Retrieval TherAppy Attainment’s Social Success Proloquo2go

And The Other Guys WindowsPhone Blackberry

Mobile accessibility standards What does the law say?

The Rules Section 508 References mobile in ?? TAC References mobile in?? WCAG 2.0 References mobile in…theory

Grow Your Own

What are your next steps? Include mobile in your accessibility policy Commit to mobile accessibility across your organization Do it today

Resources HHS EIR Mobile Accessibility policy HHS EIR Software, websites and applications checklist (Excel) BBC’s Mobile Accessibility Guidelines AppleVis Bridging Apps W3C Mobile Web Best Practices