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VoiceOver is a screen reader for users with visual and ambulatory disabilities built into Apple's OS X and iOS operating systems. It describes an application’s user interface and helps users navigate through the application’s views and controls.

VoiceOver is a screen reader for visually impaired users built into Apple's Mac OS X () and iOS (/) platforms. It describes an application’s user interface and helps users navigate through the application’s views and controls.

It can be controlled using touch gestures on the screen (usually for users with visual disabilities), or with a hardware switch (usually for users with ambulatory disabilities).

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Set different behaviour when VoiceOver is on, in stack view with buttons

I have a custom stack view with two buttons side by side. When VoiceOver is on, I want it to read these two buttons as some sort of tab, like "Button X Item 1 of 2" and "Button Y Item 2 of 2". Is it possible ? My view controller have the…
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React Native in Voice Over (iOS) reads out background invisible expo profile tab

Can someone please help me with this issue. On Android everything is fine with accessibilityViewIsModal, but on iOS Voice Over reads out elements that belong to background invisible Expo's Profile tab. I tried to…
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Accessibility in iOS: providing a brief description of a screen

I am not very experienced in Accessibility, and I'm learning some basics, specially related to VoiceOver feature. I was wondering: is it a good practice to provide a brief overall description of what a screen is showing when it is loaded? If so,…
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Voiceover (iOS) not reading page titles

I'm testing a specific web site for work, in Safari on iOS 11.4.1, with VoiceOver turned on. VoiceOver is not reading page titles -- What are the possible causes of this? Please let me know if you have questions for clarification; there are several…
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Is it possible to display the spoken words on screen with NVDA similar to VoiceOver?

Apple's VoiceOver displays the spoken text in the bottom left corner of the screen as it read it. Is this an option that can be turned on with NVDA on Windows?
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Why does not focus on iOS11?

I am doing web accessibility work now. But when I use the voiceover in iOS11, I find that the focus is not good. There was no problem before that. See the example below. skip [focus O] 1)
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AccessibilityTraits StartsMedia is not working

I'm trying to force VoiceOver to stop when an audio component is tapped on on iOS mobile. All I see in the documentation is a statement and theoretical explanation that accessibilityTraits StartsMedia does this, but could not find any real…
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HTML: Voice Over users able to access disabled select box

I want to create disabled select box for voice over users. I have this simple HTML. Select is disabled using disabled="disabled" and aria-disabled="true". But it is still accessible by Voice Over users. Checked in MacOS (Chrome/Safari). VO reads…
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Ionic2 How to handle the screen reader text?

I turned on the voiceOver screen reader on iOS device to test it on ionic2 project. The screen reader read the html tags like: Header 1 for

also reads the images tags with the images extension : "Image tag png" for . I don't need to speak…

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pickerView:didSelectRow:inComponent getting called twice with VoiceOver

I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but when you select a picker view row with VoiceOver pickerView:didSelectRow:inComponent gets called twice. Without voice over it gets called once. I've tried this on a brand new project with bare bones…
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MBProgessHUD - When voiceover is on i want the focus to shift to the spinning wheel and not on the background elements

I'm using MBProgressHUD library to show an activity indicator while there is a backend call. When i have the voiceover switched on the control is still within the background elements and not on the activity indicator view. How do i bring the…
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iPhone using voiceover moves off screen, cannot press button

I have run into a baffling behavior using VoiceOver. Basically when using the "swipe forward" gesture on a screen, the cursor will run off the bottom of the screen and the view will not "move" with it as it should. Worse of all, I have a button down…
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How to Implement NSSlider Accessible for VoiceOver on MacOS?

I have a slider:NSSlider and valueLabel:NSTextField, and I'm wondering what's the proper way to make it accessible for VoiceOver users. First I connected a send action for slider to sliderChanged function to update valueLabel. valueLabel.stringValue…
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iOS VoiceOver not reading out nested

Reading this with VoiceOver enabled only reads the initial list elements, and does not navigate to the the nested list elements (underneath the second nested ul elements) when using the swipe left-to-right gesture. ANy ideas as to why this…
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Is there a way to make Voiceover start on the top HTML element of a webpage?

I'm trying to build an accessible website that would work in Kiosk mode on iPads only. I'm using role="text" aria-label="Double tap to go to page2" to describe links ( tags) that lets you navigate through pages. It reads fine on the link, but once…
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