Accessibility Scanner

Google LLC

About this app

Accessibility Scanner is a tool that scans an app’s user interface to provide recommendations on how to improve accessibility of the app. Accessibility Scanner enables anyone, not just developers, to quickly and easily identify a range of common accessibility improvements; for example, enlarging small touch targets, increasing contrast for text and images and providing content descriptions for unlabelled graphical elements.

Improving the accessibility of your app may allow you to reach a larger audience and provide a more inclusive experience, especially for users with disabilities. This often leads to improved user satisfaction, app ratings and user retention.

The improvements suggested by Accessibility Scanner can be easily shared with members of your development team to determine how they can be incorporated into the app.

To begin using Accessibility Scanner:

• Open the app and follow the prompts to turn on the Accessibility Scanner service.
• Navigate to the app you wish to scan and tap the floating Accessibility Scanner button.
• Choose to perform a single scan, or record an entire user journey across multiple interfaces.
• For more detailed instructions, follow this getting started guide: g.co/android/accessibility-scanner-help

Checkout this short video to learn more about how Scanner works.
g.co/android/accessibility-scanner-video

Permissions Notice:
This app is an accessibility service. While it is active, it requires permissions to retrieve window content and observe your actions to perform its job.

Ratings and reviews

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Hi there! I'm thrilled to hear that the Accessibility Scanner is proving useful for you! This tool is essential for improving app accessibility, making them usable for a broader audience, including people with disabilities. It's inspiring to see a growing focus on enterprise solutions that prioritize inclusivity, contributing to a fairer digital landscape. I'm interested to find out if you've come across any particular features or insights while using it.

This is a useful app, but it doesn't allow to export/import scan results and sending the results as screenshot and txt files is super annoying for coworkers (not tech ones) to understand the results (i.e. Designers), but if they were able to import the scan results and see them as it allows in the app would be super useful and easy to understand. It is sad to say, but this app lacks accessibility for sharing with no tech people.

What’s new

Updates in version 2.5:

• Accuracy improvements to accessibility checks
• Scans now include additional application windows
• Bug fixes and other enhancements