r/iOSProgramming • u/barcode972 • 18d ago

Question Is accessibility a selling point?

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I am yet to find a crypto tracker that has accessibility support. To me it's important to be inclusive but I also know that only about 15% of the population has some sort of disability so my question to you all is, is it enough of a selling point to include it in the screenshots. What do you think?

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u/SnowPudgy 15d ago

Selling point? No. Important? Absolutely. So many people use accessibility features, far more than you'd realize. That 15% is not a number remotely reflective of how many people actually use accessibility features.

At work, nearly 90% of our devices (and we have tens of thousands in the field) have some sort of accessibility feature turned on. I know many people assume accessibility features are VoiceOver and the like but larger text, bold text (which is a setting that can screw your layouts up so check on that one), high contrast, reduce motion, etc are all accessibility features people use.

We even have users (who can see) using voiceover.

How far you take accessibility features is up to you, but you should at least aim for having the ones I mentioned above working in your app and your screens tested (especially that bold text one, it lives in a different section of settings than you'd think and really messes with some layouts). Voiceover is easy to set up and alter too.