Hi. I'm Rob.

I'm a native Mac/iOS accessibility specialist and senior iOS Engineer. Previously at Cuvva and Capital One. (He/Him)

None of this is currently updated.

Tech Interests

Please get in touch if you have an opening to work on iOS at The Lego Group.

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'm not currently taking bookings for further speaking/training engagements.

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

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.