Unable to get UIAutomation iOS UILabel value

Question

I am trying to get the value "HELLO" of the UILabel shown in the iPad simulator. I have enabled accessibility and have set the label as "Label Access". But when I call target.logElementTree(), both the name and value are set to "LabelAccess" and as far as the apple docs say, the value field should contain the string that is set (in this case "Hello"). Does anybody know a fix for this?

PS: I am using the latest iOS SDK and Xcode. Apple Stack Exchange

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Answer 1

I think you encountered a UIAutomation bug that exists since forever.

Easiest way to get around this bug is to set the accessibilityValue to your text in code.

Something like this.

NSString *valueString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", value];
self.label.text = valueString;
self.label.accessibilityValue = valueString;

Helps those people that use Voice Over too ;-)

Cyclo

Brilliant! Thank you. – Playwright

Answer 2

thanks for the workaround. Doesn't look like this bug has been fixed. Came across this while writing Appium test for the iOS app. The element found by the driver somehow only contains accessibilityLabel and accessibilityIdentifier but not the actual text that's shown on the screen.

<XCUIElementTypeStaticText type="XCUIElementTypeStaticText" value=<accessibilityLabel> name=<accessibilityIdentifier> label=<accessibilityLabel> .../>

Has someone found if this issue has been logged with apple?

EDIT: Refer to this answer and the comment underneath. https://mcmap.net/q/1623363/-uiautomation-ios-uilabel-value

Basically need to use [accessibilityValue]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiaccessibilityelement/1619583-accessibilityvalue for accessible components for the display text to show up as XCUIElementTypeStaticText.value in the page source.

For eg:

someUILabel.accessibiityLabel = "This is used for voice-over"
someUILabel.accessibilityValue = "This is displayed text"

Nessa