voiceover

I'd like to have my QR code scanning app inform the user when it finds a QR code. For sighted users, this works using a label at the bottom that updates to notify the user. However, a blind user would have to tap on that label again to have it read by Voice Over. I would much prefer it to just read automatically. The closest I can find to this question is UIAccessibility - Read all the labels and buttons on the screen from top to down , which wasn't possible. While this doesn't bode well for my app, that was a year ago. Has Apple updated it's UIAccessibility protocol in any way to allow this?

We have an issue where the Apple VoiceOver screen reader is reading words as acronyms. Here's an example: "NEW & USED" will read as "N-E-W and Used" We have honed in on the issue a bit and are seeing that words which are 3 characters or less and uppercase get read as acronyms. The text is uppercase via CSS text-transform: uppercase; . Has anyone found a way to control VoiceOver to and make it read the words? You could markup those words in this way <span aria-label="new & used">NEW & USED</span> UPDATE: using aria-label on a no longer works If you are using text-transform: uppercase , then, as

I am fairly new to Mac and iOS programming, and have recently decided to get really serious about developing applications for both platforms. The first step I took was to register to the Mac and iOS developer programs, download Xcode and study a book about Objective-C. I spent the last 6 weeks familiarizing myself with Objective-C, its syntax, concepts and the Foundation framework, and was purely developing command line applications for those purposes. Now, the next step seems to be Cocoa and developing applications that offer graphical UIs, which I'm now looking into. Now, here's an issue I

We're currently testing deploying "slippy" maps (i.e., ones that move around with a finger on a touchscreen device) on our mobile web app, using the touchmaplite JavaScript library. This map is embedded as an iframe in our web page. When we tested this setup on an iPhone with VoiceOver, we found VoiceOver gets "stuck" at the map, and won't read past it (or indeed scroll past it). This is a big stumbling block for us, we don't want to go backwards with accessibility support on our site. Is it possible to mark an element as to be "ignored" by VoiceOver, or to detect if VoiceOver is enabled in

I'm having an issue with moving the voiceover cursor to a specific element on viewDidAppear. I followed Apple's guidelines for focusing on a specific element, in this case a dismiss button, but the cursor ends up elsewhere Here is my Code: - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated { [super viewDidAppear:animated]; UIAccessibilityPostNotification(UIAccessibilityScreenChangedNotification, self.dismissButton); } Any help, ideas, would definitely be appreciated! thank you so much. If I remember correctly i was not able to reliably focus on elements on first of the view as VO will generally focus on the

I have a UITableView that I build in loadView . One of the things I do in loadView is create a UIView to act as the table header and stuff a UIImageView into it. The image view contains an image that is a stylized title, so I want to add an accessibility label for VoiceOver users. However, I can't get VoiceOver to "focus" on the image in order to read the label, and the Accessibility Inspector doesn't respond to clicking on the image in the simulator. My (abbreviated) code follows: ... in -loadView ... // Make header view UIView *headerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(...)];