Coding at Home: June 24th, WWDC Special #1

Join us today at 1pm to get set up for following along with the Swan’s Quest, the new playgrounds from Apple!

Today’s session

I love what Apple is doing with this Swan’s Quest series! We learn about accessibility, which is a hugely important, and often overlooked aspect of programming.

We are going to visit the Swan’s Quest, Chapter 1 session and download the playgrounds and set up our iPad to follow along.

I posted a short video yesterday to walk you through getting set up to use this playground.

So go to the session link and download the playground book.

You’ll need to unzip the file. I had to do it in Files on my desktop… so you can even download that playground book to your desktop and Airdrop it to your iPad for tomorrow’s session.

!!!UPDATE!!!

You can now add the playground book to your iPad via a Swift Playground feed. I’ve added a special, temporary subscribe button on https://thecodehub.ie/playgrounds/ that you can use, from your iPad, to add the playground to your own iPad.

Get the playground book on your iPad, and the next thing you need to do is enable Voiceover support.

First, open up the settings app on your iPad and tap on the Accessibility icon in the settings list.

Scroll down to the bottom of the Accessibility settings and tap on Accessibility Shortcut:

Tap on that item and we’re going to tap on VoiceOver from the next list:

This will let us enable and disable Voiceover by triple-clicking the home button on your iPad.

We can also turn on VoiceOver by going back to the main Accessibility setting screen. At the very top we can tap into VoiceOver and enable it by toggling the switch at the top of the screen:

We’ll need this to solve Swan’s Quest, Chapter 1!

See you at 1pm!

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