Systers, an Anita Borg Institute Community

Add missing contentDescription attribute to ImageViews to support Android Accessibility feature

Prerequisite:

Must have a Systers Android project forked on GitHub.

Implementation:

From Android Studio version 2.2 run Analyze->Inspect Code and generate Lint analysis results. Go to Android > Lint > Accessibility tag in the generated Lint results. Select resultant Image with missing contentDescription attribute. Add the attribute in the element in relevant XML layout file.

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Required:

As you work on this task, you should join and remain in #gci-general on Systers Opensource Slack to get help, feedback, and guidance from mentors and other developers.

Resource:

Submission:

  • Pull request on your forked repo with updated xml files.

Task tags

  • android
  • powerup
  • firstaide
  • malaria
  • accesibility

Students who completed this task

Farbod Salamat-Zadeh, Soham Sen

Task type

  • web Design
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2016