Accessibility of Flutter Apps, or How to Increase Traffic by 20%
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Practical guidance on making Flutter apps accessible to users with vision, hearing and motor impairments, using Flutter accessibility tools and techniques. The speaker shares personal experience and findings from an in-depth study to show concrete steps for improving app accessibility (and thereby increasing user reach/traffic by ~20%).
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Flutter accessibility intro
- 3:02Why accessibility matters
- 7:21Content accessibility standards
- 9:32Meeting accessibility standards
- 10:14Keyboard motor support
- 15:36Focus setup in app
- 16:19Screen focus navigation
- 20:54Keyboard shortcuts
- 22:39Vision impairment support
- 24:50Text scaling settings
- 28:48Handling large text
- 31:17High contrast & dark theme
- 33:11Reducing motion
- 35:41Screen readers & Braille
- 38:14Flutter semantics setup
- 41:34Semantics in code
- 44:56Semantics fields & flags
- 46:43Accessibility testing
- 47:23Summary
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