Making the App Accessible

Universal apps have a number of accessibility features built in, designed to help users with disabilities. You can test this support by enabling various features in the Ease of Access section in the PC Settings app or the Settings app on a phone. You can configure Narrator, a screen reader, and witness it convey information about your app with varying degrees of success. (You can quickly toggle Narrator on and off by pressing Windows+Enter.) You can choose a high contrast theme and watch controls used by your app automatically change to match the theme. You can turn off standard animations. And so on.

To make your app usable to the broadest set of customers, including people with disabilities, you should take steps ...

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