Accessibility of Mobile User Interfaces using Flutter and React Native

Abstract

From the first static webpages to Web 3.0 and ubiquitous devices, technologies enhance and influence our lives today more than ever. Mobile devices, like smartphones, allow users to download millions of applications developed with different programming languages, frameworks, and quality standards. In this context, accessibility is a critical point that needs to be persecuted not only by developers, but even offered as an out-of-the-box feature by mobile technologies so that modern mobile applications can improve the lives of all users. In this paper, we investigate how two frameworks for cross-platform development, Flutter and React Native, address accessibility issues, and we propose some solutions when the official documentation does not.