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

I tried Wesley's answer of setting the array of the accessibilityElements but it didn't work for me.

Apple has some documentation Enhancing the Accessibility of Table View Cells with an example in code. Basically you set the accessibility label of the cell (the parent view) to the values of the accessibility labels of the child views.

[cell setAccessibilityLabel:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@, %@", cityLabel, temperatureLabel]];

This is what worked for me.