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From: Paul.Adam
Date: Jun 10, 2011 8:36AM

I'm a registered iOS developer, I've read all the Accessibility API docs for iOS and you have a lot more control with native apps. You can make a web app perfectly accessible with JavaScript and ARIA but the end user experience won't be as simple and easy to use as native apps are.

The strategy I would use would be to make a native iOS app for the apple devices which are the most popular for accessibility and a JS/ARIA enabled web app for all the other mobile operating systems with shoddy accessibility support. The web app would work for feature phones that don't have app stores as well.

Paul Adam
Accessibility Specialist
Center for Policy and Innovation
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