Apple-native accessibility engineering
Accessibility is not a patch you apply before review, and it is not a checkbox. It is the same craft as the rest of the build. We design and ship iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps on Apple's own accessibility APIs, so the app behaves properly for the people already relying on VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Switch Control every day.
Traits, hints, custom actions, status announcements and layouts that hold at every text size, written into the SwiftUI hierarchy rather than bolted on at the end.
Framework work
Apple ships the best accessibility infrastructure on any platform. Most of the gap between a compliant app and a genuinely usable one is in how carefully those APIs get applied.
Semantic elements, custom traits, sensible container grouping and hints that say something useful, plus status changes announced through UIAccessibility.post rather than left silent. The goal is a screen a blind user can move through quickly, not merely one that reads aloud.
View hierarchies built to survive the accessibility text sizes, not just the default one. We test at AX5, where most apps start truncating labels, clipping buttons and losing whole controls off the bottom of the screen.
Support for external switches, AssistiveTouch and hardware keyboards, with visible focus on every control, hit targets that meet Apple's 44x44pt minimum, and a focus order that follows the task rather than the view hierarchy.
The OS-level switches actually respected: isIncreaseContrastEnabled, isReduceTransparencyEnabled and isReduceMotionEnabled. If someone has turned motion off across their whole phone, your app should not be the one that ignores them.
Charts and telemetry described with AXChartDescriptor so VoiceOver can play the data as an audible pitch sweep, paired with haptics where the Taptic Engine adds something a tone cannot.
Labels that match what a control is called on screen, so Voice Control can address it, and accessibilityCustomActions to collapse a fiddly gesture into a single item in the rotor.
Commercial value
Compliance is the floor, not the reason. Accessible apps reach more people, survive procurement, and tend to be better apps for everyone who uses them.
Every one of those people is carrying an iPhone that already supports them properly. The gap is almost never the device. It is the apps running on it, and that is a gap you can close.
Since June 2025 the EAA has applied to a broad range of consumer digital products and services sold into the EU, with conformance assessed against EN 301 549, which carries the WCAG success criteria across to native apps. Getting there deliberately is cheaper than getting there under a deadline.
Apple runs an Inclusivity category in the Apple Design Awards and gives accessible apps regular editorial space on the App Store, particularly around Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It is one of the few things a small studio can compete on directly.
Legible type, honest contrast, clear hierarchy and motion you can turn off are not concessions. They are the things people mean when they say an app feels well made.
Our own work
Inclusive design tooling
A native iOS tool that grades every pairing in a palette against the WCAG contrast ratios as you build it, with live simulation for protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia.
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Accessible routine timing
Built so you never have to look at it: high-contrast type, VoiceOver announcing each step as it starts, haptic pulses at every transition, and Dynamic Type held across iOS and watchOS.
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Services
An audit of what you already have, hands-on remediation, or keeping a shipped app in good shape as iOS and the standards move. Every engagement ends in code and a written record of what changed, not a slide deck.
Audit & report
Fixed price scope
Remediation & build
Project engagement
Ongoing upkeep
From £950/month
Contact
An audit of what you have, remediation on a codebase that needs it, or a new Apple product built this way from the first commit. Happy to look at where you are before either of us commits to anything.
