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Jun 18, 2021,02:54pm EDT|
How Google Makes Android Apps, And The World’s Information, Universally Accessible To Everyone
Steven Aquino
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Steven covers accessibility and assistive technology.
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Google’s Android Studio now helps developers scan for accessibility issues in their apps.
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As iPhone and Apple Watch are the standard-bearers in their respective product categories, so too is Apple the standard-bearer when it comes to designing and shipping best-of-breed assistive technologies. The Cupertino company has long been lauded by those in the disability community as creating the best accessibility software, just as iPhone is the best smartphone and Apple Watch the best smartwatch.
Still, where Apple leads, it is incumbent on its contemporaries to follow. Maintaining good accessibility practices is obviously not exclusive to one company, nor should it be. Indeed, Apple’s Big Tech peers in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, all do admirable work in their own right to push accessibility’s importance to technology and to raise awareness of disabled people. In particular, the Mountain View-based Google has made significant strides in recent times to make accessibility on Android and other [...]
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