I'm a senior iOS Engineer and native Mac and iOS accessibility specialist. I've Previously worked iOS at Cuvva and Capital One and accessibility at Apple and Reveal and many others. (He/Him)

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• Email: rw@rwapp.co.uk
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• Senior iOS Engineer
• Self-taught career changer
• Mobile accessibility specialist
• Author: Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps: Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android published by Apress, 2020
• Invited Expert W3C Mobile Accessibility Task Force

• Touch-Free Touch Screens
  Talk at NSLondon
  London
  Wednesday 26th March 2025

• Touch-Free Touch Screens
  Talk at iOSKonf conference
  Skopje, North Macedonia
  Wednesday, 14th May 2025

• From Zero to accessible - Making your app accessible from the ground up
  Interactive workshop at SwiftCraft conference
  Folkstone, UK
  Monday, 19th May 2025

If you think your confernce, meetup, or organisation could benefit from a talk or workshop on mobile accessibility, please contact me at rw@rwapp.co.uk

• From Zero to accessible - Making your app accessible from the ground up
  Interactive workshop at ARCTIC conference
  Oulu, Finland March 2025

• Touch-Free Touch Screens
  Talk at APPDEVCON conference
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  March 2025

• Mobile Accessibility Testing: Making it effective and efficient for everyone
  Remote talk for A11yCamp
  Video
  November 2022

• Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility Issues
  Workshop for iOSDevUK
  Aberystwyth, Wales
  September 2022

• Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility Issues
  Workshop for 360iDev
  Denver, Colorado
  September 2022

• Mobile Accessibility Testing
  Remote talk/workshop for Spotify
  May 2022

• Next Level iOS Accessibility
  Remote workshop for Try! Swift World
  May 2022

• Next Level iOS Accessibility
  Remote talk for Sydney CocoaHeads
  Video
  slides
  May 2022
  

• Identifying & Fixing iOS Accessibility Issues
  Remote workshop
  June 2021

• Mobile Accessibility Testing Tools
  Remote talk held for Funka
  May 2021

• Accessibility in Mobile
  Remote workshop held for Ecosia
  July 2020

• Accessibility in SwiftUI
  CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
  Video
  March 2020

• The Route to an RNIB Certified iOS App
  CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
  March 2020

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  NSManchester, Manchester, England
  October 2019

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  SWMobile, Bristol, England
  Video
  September 2019

• Accessibility in SwiftUI
  iOSDevUK, Aberystwyth, Wales
  September 2019

• Panel member, iOS development Q&A
  iOSCon, McLean, VA
  August 2019

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  NSLondon
  July 2019

• Accessibility Without the ‘V’ Word
  CodeMobile, Chester, England
  Video
  Slides
  April 2019

• A Swift Testing Journey
  CodeMobile, Chester, England
  April 2019

• A Swift Testing Journey
  iOSDevUK, Aberystwyth, Wales
  September 2018

• I used to blog at MobileA11y.com about mobile accessibility
• Wrote a book Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps: Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android published by Apress
• A selection of old blogs is available on Medium

Here's a selection of my favorite/most popular blogs

• SwiftUI Accessibility
  A series of guides covering all the accessibility APIs in SwiftUI.

• Writing Great iOS Accessibility Labels
  This is part of a series on iOS accessibility labels, this part gives you all the tips you need to write the most useful labels you can.

• Baking Digital Inclusion Into Your Mobile Apps
  Why making accessibility part of your regular development flow is the right thing to do, for Capital One Tech

• Robot Pattern Testing for XCUITest
  Using the Robot pattern for writing composable UI tests for iOS, for Capital One Tech

I love talking about mobile accessibility get in touch if you think your listeners would like to know more.

• Parallel 81: Tools and Tips for Mobile App Developers
• The Engineering Leader: Rob Whitaker on Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps
• AppForce1: Rob Whitaker accessibilty author and workshop host
• Parallel 30: It's Like Playing Jazz
• iPhreaks 274: iOS Accessibility with Rob Whitaker

Some old projects I've worked on, none of these are currently maintained.

• A11yUITests
  An extension for XCTestCase to add common accessibility checks to XCUITests.

• A11y Box Android
  An app highlighting the Android accessibility APIs.

• A11y Box iOS
  An app highlighting the iOS accessibility APIs.

• Email: rw@rwapp.co.uk
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