# Android Accessibility Checklist

DevFeed: [Android Accessibility Checklist](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/android-accessibility-checklist-38488.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eevis.codes/blog/2024-08-07/android-accessibility-checklist/>)

Author: Eevis Panula

Published: 2024-08-07T02:56:29.395000Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Eevis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eevis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

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## AI overview

This blog post presents an Android accessibility checklist developed as part of a master's thesis. It explains the checklist's research and development process, including prior research, Android accessibility guidelines, interviews with Android developers, and questionnaire feedback. The checklist has sections for checks developers can fix themselves and issues that may require broader support or significant changes.

## Source excerpt

I'm studying for my second master's degree (for fun) and finished with my thesis in the spring. As part of my thesis, I developed an accessibility checklist for Android developers. While completing all the checks doesn't guarantee that your app is 100% accessible, the checklist aims to help catch many possible accessibility problems. In this blog post, I'll first share a bit about the development process and then share the checklist. If you're curious, the whole checklist with accompanying material is behind the following link: Android Accessibility Checklist. Background As mentioned, developing the checklist was part of my Master's thesis, which has been published, and you can find it from the following link: Towards More Accessible Android Applications: An Actionable Accessibility Checklist for Android Developers. I conducted the research with the help of Design Science Research (DSR). I collected material for the initial checklist from prior research and available Android accessibility guidelines, evaluated it with five interviews with Android developers, and then constructed an improved checklist. Then, I created the website with the improved checklist and collected feedback and material for the last analysis with a Google Form. I analyzed the answers from both interviews and the questionnaire with the help of content analysis. The result of the research is the Android Accessibility Checklist, or as DSR calls it, an artifact. The checklist itself consists of two sections. The first contains the checks that every Android developer should do, and the findings should be fixable by the developer. The second section includes checks that might not be fixable by the developer alone and might either require help from other functions or be a huge change. I'll explain the reasoning for some of these checks later in the blog post. Now that the work with the thesis is over, and I don't need to think about the thesis' scope anymore, I will update the page and the checklist o