voiceover

I have phone number in below format 1-1xx-2xx-9565 Currently VO read it as " One (pause) One x x (pause) two x x (pause) minus nine thousand five hundred sixty five ". VO should read it as " One (pause) One x x (pause) two x x (pause) nine five six five ". What could be the problem? Is this wrong phone format? Let's break down what is happening. VoiceOver doesn't know that the text you are presenting is a phone number and treats it like a sentence of text. In that text it tries to find distinct components and read them appropriately. For example, the text "buy 60 cantaloupes" has 3 components,

I'm in the process of making my iOS app accessible and I'm nearly finished. My app contains several custom screen transitions, and when VoiceOver is on it seems to pick either the top-leftmost element to describe after the transition or, occasionally, a random element. UIAccessibilityTraitSummaryElement looked promising but as I understand it only works when the app is started, not after arbitrary transitions. There doesn't seem to be an accessibility trait or property to specify the preferred order that elements are given VoiceOver focus. Is there any way to force VoiceOver focus? EDIT: iOS 6

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 above and below each other. However, voiceover starts reading from Left to Right, from Top to Bottom, it seems. This results in voiceover reading the button to the right of "Up" after "Up", instead of reading "Down" immediately afterward. How do I force voiceover to read the button that I want to read? I should mention that I'm using the swipe-to-cycle-through-elements feature on voiceover. All my