I bought Introduction to Mobile App Accessibility for Vision Pro app development
Today, November 21, my copy of Introduction to Mobile App Accessibility, published by Gijutsu-Hyohron, arrived. I had preordered it.
The subtitle is "iOS + Android Design and Implementation." visionOS, which runs on Vision Pro, is not iOS, but it is part of the OS family released by Apple. Especially for Window apps, SwiftUI, which is also used for iOS and other platforms, can be used as-is, so I do not think it is unrelated.
My work is still mainly centered on the Web, but over the past few years I have been intentionally moving gradually toward XR as well. Native apps have parts that differ from the Web, but I think there are many shared concerns, such as text size, color, and contrast.
For visionOS design, there is a page called "Designing for visionOS" (I expect this page will become richer over time). It also has an accessibility section and links to the accessibility pages in the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).
People who bought this book as an extension of "Web Application Accessibility" may be surprised as they read and encounter Swift and Kotlin code. In my case, Swift is a recent interest, so I enjoy reading it, but it may be harder for people who are not in that mindset.
Personally, I think the book is worth reading even if you cannot read those code examples. Whether for the Web or native apps, many people probably use Figma when designing.
Even if you do not write code yourself, the book contains accessibility considerations that matter when designing. So if you flip through it at a bookstore and see native code, I hope you do not close it immediately.