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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 6, 2016 7:36AM

For those of you who have had to prepare arguments for making mobile
apps accessible, and what that means, how have you gone about it?
WCAG 2.0 is the only accessibility standard out there, really (at
least from a legal perspective), but it is designed for the web (most
of it can be applied to mobile apps, I am aware of the WCAG to ICT
project).
BBC also did fantastic work developing mobile accessibility gudelines,
but obviously that is not an official standard.

So if your client or your boss or even a colleague asks you if they
should make their mobile app accessible or just the responsive version
of their webpage, how would you convince them to do the mobile, and
how would you explain how WCAG works with OS guides.
Cheers
-B
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