Change the description of an object on text-to-speech

Question

I'm currently working on providing accessibility to an app and I wanted to know if there's a way to change the description of a specific textField when you're marking/selecting it.

Say you have myNumericInput: UITextField! which you set to NumberPad. When voice over is activated and you tap on it, it will select it and say "text field". Is there a way to override this and have it say, for example, "numeric field"?

I know this is just the voice over app describing the object itself (textField), but maybe the description is confusing for the user, and I wanted to check if this can be better specified somehow.

EmilioPelaez · Answer 1 · 2018-02-12T17:45:05.787

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You could set the value of accessibilityHint to your text field to better describe what it does.

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edited Feb 12 '18 at 17:45

answered Feb 12 '18 at 17:39

EmilioPelaez

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You do not need to override `UITextField` to set the `accessibilityHint` of the text field. – rmaddy Feb 12 '18 at 17:40
@rmaddy gotcha, I improved the answer. – EmilioPelaez Feb 12 '18 at 17:45

Change the description of an object on text-to-speech

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