Might nineteenth, 2022 marks the eleventh annual celebration of World Accessibility Consciousness Day and we needed to replace everybody on the accessibility progress we’ve made on the React Native Framework. Meta (previously Fb) was the first group to take the GAAD pledge in 2020, committing to creating the React Native framework accessible.
“We hope this pledge makes it simpler for builders utilizing React Native to create totally accessible cellular apps and evokes different organizations to make comparable commitments to a extra accessible future.”
The method initially started with a radical evaluate and hole evaluation of the framework centered on React Native utilized the iOS and Android APIs to help accessibility options. Dozens of points have since been mounted or closed out, making good on the pledge to make React Native accessible and advancing the accessibility of the framework ever ahead.
We didn’t cease there, and in early 2022, we reviewed and prioritized the remaining points from this hole evaluation on the Improved React Native Accessibility Board primarily based on their impression on builders and finish customers.
Fixes which have already landed in 2022
Fixes at the moment in progress
Contributor spotlight
We wish to acknowledge and ship an incredible thanks to Fabrizo Bertoglio who has contributed a number of high-quality accessibility fixes to React Native in 2021 and 2022.
Fabrizio has made it a private objective to allow customers by way of prime quality options. By studying how you can use TalkBack and VoiceOver himself, he has found how tough it may be for display screen reader customers to expertise on a regular basis functions. He needs to construct software program that removes friction from these experiences and please disabled customers.
His pull requests have been very prime quality, effectively documented, and embody thorough take a look at instances. Effectively performed Fabrizio! The React Native Accessibility group thanks you in your many excellent contributions.
What’s subsequent in 2022
Our objective is to repair as lots of the remaining accessibility points as doable in 2022. We can even be reviewing the backlog of React Native group reported points to search for any new accessibility-related requests.
