Accessibility in Flutter

Accessibility refers to the practice of making our applications usable by as many people as possible. We traditionally think of accessibility as being about people with disabilities. However, the practice of making applications accessible also benefits other groups, such as people who speak different languages, read from right to left, have slow network connections, or have minor impairments.

We probably don’t want to exclude people of certain abilities, circumstances, or cultures from accessing or effectively using our application.

In this lesson, we will learn to make our application more accessible to different user groups, regardless of their abilities or circumstances.

we’ll achieve this by:

1. Learning the different forms of disability
2. Scanning our application to discover accessibility issues
3. Labeling our application’s semantics
4. Making our application neurodiversity accessible

Forms of disabilities

People with disabilities are just as diverse as people without disabilities, and so are their abilities. There are four major categories of disabilities, namely:

• Motor disability, which affects motion
• Vision disability, which affects seeing
• Neurodiversity disability, which affects perception and concentration
• Hearing disability

The table below shows the different types of disabilities, the challenges people might face while using our application, and how we can help them by making our applications more accessible.