Accessible Solitaire

The Accessible Solitaire app has been designed to provide a fun experience for all players.

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Guy Barker – Technical Accessibility Enthusiast

For some background on me, visit All Good Things, Explorations into Assistive Technology, and Reflections on Twenty Years of Exploration.

Thoughts on my recent explorations around building accessible apps are in Barker’s Articles.

Accessible Solitaire? Honestly, what was I thinking?

This article mentions some of the technology used in the Accessible Solitaire app, and also asks whether the app is so inaccessible that its name is unhelpful and misleading.

Accessible Solitaire? Honestly, what was I thinking?

The following picture shows an in-progress game of Klondike solitaire in the iOS Accessible Solitaire app running on an iPad mini. The app menu is open listing the six available games in the app, and VoiceOver’s caption shows: “Royal Parade Solitaire, Button”.

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