I am working on making an overlay modal more accessible. It works essentially like this JSFiddle. When you open the modal, the focus doesn't properly go into the modal, and it continues to focus on...

I have a button on screen. When a user taps that button, my app opens a modal (view). When the user then closes that view, the focus of accessibility VoiceOver goes to the top of the screen. In UIK...

I have a simple UIView hierarchy. There is a parent view A which contains view B and C. If I set all views as accessibility element, only view A is accessible. Views B and C are not clickable. I ne...

Is there any way to get the current speed of the VoiceOver speech on an iOS app? Sometimes I use my own AVSpeechUtterance strings and I'd like to use the same rate that's is configured on VoiceOver...

I'm using the ref prop along with findNodeHandle on a bunch of components in order to be able to trigger AccessibilityInfo.setAccessibilityFocus. However, it's not always working as expected. Somet...

In my iOS app I have a UITableView. It contains some UITableViewCells which are isAccessibilityElement = true and some which are isAccessibilityElement = false. (The latter are cells that contain o...

For the SwiftUI Image element, the voiceover template is seems "accessibility label - image - image name", e.g. for var body: some View { Image(systemName: "equal") .accessibi...

For an accessibility task I need to test the iPhone VoiceOver, but since I don't have an iPhone is it possible to turn it on in a simulated device in Xcode somehow?

With VoiceOver switched-on, when focus comes on a UIButton/UITableViewCell/UICollectionViewCell, VoiceOver reads it's accessibility label once. Then as soon as user double taps to select that UIBu...

The UIAccessibilityContainerType.landmark enumeration case is described as "Landmark data." This description leaves much to the imagination and I have struggled to find information about ...

I am making my iPhone app accessible. VoiceOver is pretty impressive. When a user uses VoiceOver, it automatically reads off the items on the screen and allows the user to double-tap anywhere on th...

I'm adding two UIButton to the right view of a UITextField, but voiceOver can't see them (it "reads" only the containing view). I already set right view's accessibilityElementsHidden to 'no'. I don...

I have a bunch of buttons on the screen which are positioned intuitively visually but are not read in an intuitive order by VoiceOver. This is because certain buttons like Up and Down are placed ab...

I'm showing product ratings using Unicode star symbols. iOS VoiceOver doesn't read this aloud correctly, so I thought I'd use aria-label on my span to tell screen readers what it means. <sp...

Overview: I'm having difficulty understanding how to properly programmatically shift accessibility focus in a SwiftUI view compatible with IOS 13+. This means using the newer SwiftUI focus manageme...

Voice over reads the following NSStrings like so 14:15 "Fourteen fifteen." This is clearly a time 14:00 "Fourteen." This is ambiguous. If the time 14:00 appears in the status ba...

I have a view controller with this layout (note that yellow and table views are siblings): I want the yellow view to act as a container, so I'm doing this in viewDidLoad: yellowView.isAccessibilit...

Is there any way to accessibly hide a table caption without breaking how screen readers interpret the rest of the table? Hiding a <caption> with typically recommended styles for hiding an ele...

I have a horizontally scrolled UICollectionView with a title label above it and a UIPageControl below it. UILabel UICollectionView UIPageControl When I turn on the VoiceOver accessibility featur...

When using Voice Over in iOS, calling UIAccessibility.post(notification:argument:) to announce a field error doesn't actually announce the error. I have a submit button and, when focusing the butt...

I have a MKAnnotationView subclass and place several of them on an MKMapView. The MKAnnotationView subclass sets some accessibility elements like this: func applyAccessibility() { self.isAccessi...

When VoiceOver is enabled, voice-over for the UIPickerView always says “#Item 1 of #TotalNumberOfItems” no matter to which row we swipe. Programatically all the elements are getting updated with th...

I am building full accessibility into my iOS Game called Swordy Quest: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swordy-quest-an-rpg-adventure/id1446641513 As you can see from the screenshots on the above link...

I am working on an Applescript to paste what was last copied to any current field. It is to be used with VoiceOver and the key code way (only way I know how) does not work all of the time. tell a...

I have a UIImageView as the background for a view. User interaction is disabled. isAccessibilityElement is set to NO. This is verified by using debug view hierarchy when the app is running on devic...