Accessibility issues in Android apps
2020
Mobile apps are an integral component of our daily life. Ability to use mobile apps is important for everyone, but arguably even more so for approximately 15% of the world population with disabilities. This paper presents the results of a large-scale empirical study aimed at understanding accessibility of Android apps from three complementary perspectives. First, we analyze the prevalence of accessibility issues in over 1, 000 Android apps. We find that almost all apps are riddled with accessibility issues, hinder…