Chapter 8. Accessibility, Options, and Limited Opportunity to Help our User

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Using the 80 percent rule when developing optimal settings

• Properly supporting copy and paste

• Supporting undo and redo

• Configurations in, settings out

• Cutting features when in doubt

• Supporting VoiceOver and other accessibility features

Introduction

When we're designing our application, it's extremely easy to fall into a bubble and forget that people other than our development team will use the application. It's an interesting situation, as we're mindfully creating a product for other people to use on their iPhone or iPad, but it's extremely easy to get caught up and forget that our work must be easily understandable by any user.

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The most overlooked conflict arises when designers don't attempt to make their application fit into operating system wide standards such as copy and paste, undo and redo, and accessibility features such as voiceover. Often designers feel as if their app doesn't...