Two people over a week ago asked me for mobile resources one for checking accessibility on mobile devices and the other for general information, so I figured I would publish them for all to see. Here are a bunch of resources from my work bookmarks, along with even more from my home laptop. A bunch of these articles, blog post, etc. are five or six years old, but the ideas and concepts are still worth reading.
UPDATED broken and redirected links – 01/02/2017.
The information is grouped together by the organization or person that wrote them.
BBC Mobile
- Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines v1.0
- Blog post about BBC Accessibility Guidelines
- Accessibility Standards and Guidelines
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Touch target sizes
Henny Swan
- Introduction to mobile accessibility, 2015 (slides)
- Resources for Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
- Mobile Accessibility (slides)
- Mobile accessibility tests
- Progressive enhancement for mobile: media queries
- Getting to grips with a mobile accessibility strategy
- Let the mobile web learn from and not repeat the mistakes of desktop
- Use consistent text alternatives across desktop and mobile
- DIY mobile usability testing – IA Summit 2011
Paul Adam – this mobile resources page has a lot of links on it
Marcy Sutton
Luke Wroblewski
- Mobile UX Essentials
- Breaking Dev: Mobile Apps Must Die
- Mobile Context Revisited
- Live at An Event Apart: Mobile First! (video – no captions)
- Linking Mobile Web and Native App Experiences
- Video: Rich and Mobile Form Design (video – Silverlight and other formats linked at bottom of page)
- Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords
- Apple’s Overloaded iPhone Button
Apple – iOS
- iPhone VoiceOver Manual
- VoiceOver Getting Started
- VoiceOver on iOS
- Apple’s 27 Guidelines for Mobile User Experience Design
- iPhone 5 VoiceOver
- Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps
- Understanding Accessibility on iOS
- Common braille commands for VoiceOver navigation using iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Videos
- Quick start accessibility testing on iPhone or iPad (video with captions by Yahoo)
- Using iPhone 4 with a Braille display – Victor Tsaran (video with captions)
- Navigating a web page with VoiceOver on an iPhone (video with captions by Yahoo with Victor Tsaran)
Android
- TalkBack Google results
- Turn TalkBack on
- Get started on Android with TalkBack
- Developer Guidelines
- Accessibility Apps Scanner
Brad Frost
- Test on Real Mobile Devices without Breaking the Bank
- Beyond Media Queries: Anatomy of an Adaptive Web Design (slides)
Jason Grigsby
- Where are the Mobile First Responsive Web Designs?
- On Mobile Context
- When Responsive Web Design Meets the Real World (audio with transcript)
Brian Fling
SSB Bart Group
Rachel Andrew
- How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
- Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch
PPK
jQuery
- 50 jQuery Mobile Development Tips
- Slides from jQuery Mobile State of the Framework 2011, Todd Parker and Scott Jehl
- jQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development
Miscellaneous Mobile Accessibility
- What Works on Mobile from HTML5
- Mobile accessibility why care what can you do about it
- Standford mobile tips and tools
- Misused mobile UX patterns
- Why You Should Avoid Using Modal Windows on Mobile
- A new mobile navigation menu Converting the desktop dropdown nav
- Mobile Users Prefer Browsers over Apps
- The next billion people online (slides) – Bruce Lawson
- Making Your Site Mobile-friendly – Ignite Manchester 01.03.2010 (slides) – Patrick Lauke
- Rise of Mobile and Web Runtimes – for Standards-Next (slides)
- Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (slides)
- Designing for the Mobile Web – Michael Dick (slides)
- Mobile Site vs. Full Site – Jakob Nielson
- Mobile in Korea (Mobile UX Camp DC) – 2011
- How to use Firebug on your iPad and iPhone
- Cell Phone Screen Resolution, sorted by brand and model
Hopefully, some or all these were helpful to you.