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 know this is an old thread, but I found that the easiest way to do it is to subclass UIView as such (Swift 3). Then simply modify your main UIView type in storyboard to AccessibiltySubviewsOrderedByTag and update the tags in each subview you want read in order.

class AccessibilitySubviewsOrderedByTag: UIView {
    
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        
        self.accessibilityElements = [UIView]()
        for accessibilitySubview in self.subviews {
            if accessibilitySubview.isAccessibilityElement {
                self.accessibilityElements?.append(accessibilitySubview)
            }
        }
        self.accessibilityElements?.sort(by: {($0 as AnyObject).tag < ($1 as AnyObject).tag})
    }
}