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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 29, 2019 5:39PM


One trick I use to see if something is a webview or not is to look at the Voice Over rotor settings in iOS when focused on the content in question and see if there are HTML type rotor settings for links, lists, form controls, table, etc. If so you are in a webview.

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On 29/01/2019 13:37, Barry Hill wrote:
> If an app is written using html ostensibly for IOS use only, which
> guidelines would be most appropriate, WCAG 2.1 or mobile accessibility
> guidelines? I think the pertinent question is, is it a native or a web app?

The more pertinent question here would be: when you say it's written using HTML, do you mean it's then packaged/cross-compiled, running inside a native app shell with a webview, or literally loaded in Safari?
If the latter two, it's still web content shown by a web user agent (in the case of the webview, a very cut-down one in terms of user controls, but a user agent nonetheless). If it's cross-compiled and packaged (using something like PhoneGap), the lines get a bit more blurred (though I believe fundamentally it's still running inside a webview for the most part, so still web content).

Also note that there aren't really separate/different mobile accessibility guidelines per se. There is guidance on how to apply/interpret WCAG 2.0 (not sure if there's a 2.1 version out yet) for mobile apps, but fundamentally the (tech agnostic) success criteria remain the same.

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