Change order of read items with VoiceOver

Question

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 U

Answer 1

This doesn’t directly answer the original question, but it answers the title of the question:

When I want VoiceOver to swipe down a column, I have been using a containing view for the column with shouldGroupAccessibilityChildren set.

I wish I had known this earlier, because it can be a pain to retroactively insert containers into an autolayout situation…