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Though this course is largely about web accessibility concerns,

there's a lot to cover in terms of mobile accessibility.

In this stage we'll cover responsive techniques, as well as things to keep

in mind when you consider users accessing your content via mobile devices.

The BBC has created a fantastic resource for their own developers

related to mobile web content, as well as native and hybrid applications.

They're essentially a list of dos and

don'ts which makes them easy to follow and reference.

So the full name of this resource is the BBC Standards and Guidelines for

Mobile Accessibility.

For some clarity on how to read the standards and

guidelines, we'll take a look at the About page.

The short version of this is that everything is divided into eleven topics

and takes into account the different rules that come into play in any project.

So you'll see information that will be useful to UX designers, editors, and

developers.

Techniques and examples are included.

A little further down under Definitions, we see that Standards are defined

as best practices that can easily be tested with specific criteria.

To make things even easier for us, they've indicated with little Must or

Must Not flags.

Guidelines are less testable but should still be part of an accessible app.

They're marked with the words Should or Should Not.

We'll focus on the Developers section here.

As promised there are 11 different topics beginning with Audio and

video, and ending with Recommendations.

Each has a sort of short hand version of the relevant standards and guidelines.

The first section, for example, lists Autoplay Must Not and Metadata Should.

Now, you might be able to guess that this means your audio and

video content must not play automatically and you should provide metadata.

But let's get some more detail on this.

There's a nice, robust navigation menu on the right-hand side of the screen

that can take us a bit deeper.

If we click on Audio and video, we're given a few more options.

The others, Subtitles, signing and audio description, and Transcripts

are considering part of the developer's primary responsibilities by the BBC and

so are listed in other sections.

If we choose Autoplay though, we get a much more detailed explanation

of what the standard actually is and how it can be implemented.

What's really cool about this resource is that it takes native mobile technologies

into account.

There are not only examples and guidance for using HTML but

there are iOS and Android examples as well.

There are also testing procedures listed for each standard.

The BBC Standards and Guidelines for

Mobile Accessibility are another great set of standards to use,

especially if you're working on the specifically mobile project.