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Android Implementing Designs for Android Customizing the Action Bar Adding Icons to Tabs

Alex Feinberg
Alex Feinberg
2,025 Points
Posted by Alex Feinberg
Alex Feinberg
2,025 Points

Accessibility of tabs with icons

In this video, the tab text is replaced with icons. Nice. It would be even better to replace the text with both icons and content descriptions to improve accessibility. Here is the improved code:

actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab()
.setContentDescription(mSectionsPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i))
.setIcon(mSectionsPagerAdapter.getIcon(i))
.setTabListener(this));

2 Answers

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Excellent! Thanks for sharing. I should have included this. I'll add it as a note on the video page.

yilzer
yilzer
4,601 Points
yilzer
yilzer
4,601 Points

Hey guys, I don't understand the goal of that extra line. Could you explain what you mean with improve accessibility?

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Adding a content description gives a text description of the image on the icon. This is useful for users who have certain accessibility features enabled, like screen readers. This specifically is helpful for users who have difficulty reading the screen or making out icons.

Sorry for the late reply!