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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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Sending a tap to a Web application through VoiceOver

I am building a web application for use by visually impaired users to explore SVG diagrams via a tactile printout. In order to allow this I need to calibrate the tactile printout to the image on the device. Thus I need to be able to receive the x…
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How to get the selected element of the IOS voiceover on a webpage using JavaScript?

I couldn't find answer to this question anywhere on the web. For example we can get active element using document.activeElement in JavaScript. Is there any way to get the element focused by ios VoiceOver?
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Accessibility Full Screen Selection Issue

I have a tableView which is the table is UITableViewStyleGrouped style. Whose cell elements are accessible. But as soon as you select the outer area of the cell but within the table view the whole screen gets selected (as you can see black outline)…
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UIPageControl not working with voiceOver

I'm building a simple walkthrough at the beginning of my app. This walkthrough needs to be accessible to voiceOver users. In other apps, I've noticed that visually impaired users can swipe up and down on UIPageControl and travel between different…
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How to tie Voiceover into an MPVolumeView slider?

I created an MPVolumeView slider in Interface Builder to adjust the audio volume (code below): import UIKit import MediaPlayer class StreamVolumeTableViewCell: AudioStreamTableViewCell { static let identifier = "StreamVolumeTableViewCell" …
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Is there a way to programmatically capture audio output of VoiceOver reading a web page?

Suppose I wanted to have Apple VoiceOver read out the contents of a webpage running in a browser, including responses to interactions, and ultimately output the result as audio. For example, for a web page with HTML such as the following: …
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iOS Accessibility Voice over mode get the tapped line/pragraph content

I am developing a PDF viewer app, it uses PDFKit as a library. I create a view contain a PDFView, and load the custom view in a UIViewController subclass. Now I am foused on accessibility voice over, what I can get from PDFView class in PDFKit is…
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VoiceOver pronounces some words in english instead of current language

I'm currently building an app which will be used with VoiceOver. Some words of native components like UIPageControl or Reorder buttons when reordering tableviews are pronounced in English instead of the current language of VoiceOver. I've never had…
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VoiceOver in UITextView: tracking VoiceOver progress

I'm developing a newspaper, magazine and book reading app for the visually impaired. How can I keep track of VoiceOver speech progress in an UITextView with a lot of text so that I can bookmark where VoiceOver speech was interrupted? Can VoiceOver…
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Is there any notification to inform when voice over has finished reading a button or a label?

The notification UIAccessibilityAnnouncementDidFinishNotification do not work. It can only work by using UIAccessibilityPostNotification(UIAccessibilityAnnouncementNotification, string). So how can I find when the voice over finished reading a…
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Prototype Cell - Accessibility order of elements

I created a prototype cell which has three element - UILabel , UIButton(image - radio-button) and UILabel as shown below. also cell has Disclosure indicator. When I enable voice over. it reads "Test Data, Label4, button(for accessory) and then it…
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Accessibility: Voice over read update label?

How to force voice over in Accessibility read my updated label For example, var label.text = 1 Then after 2 sec I update label to 2 label.text = 2 But the voice over not interact with 2 any suggest ?
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How to set single VoiceOver for group of UIControls

I have a UIButton and a UILabel embedded in a UIStackView, which looks something like this in Interface Builder: By setting the UIStackView's isAccessibilityElement and accessibilityLabel properties, I have been able to group the UIButton and…
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`UIPanGestureRecognizer` not accessible to users who are using VoiceOver in iOS

The below code adds a UIPanGestureRecognizer to the whole view on screen. When a user pans across the screen with one finger the panning/swiping action is recognised and recognizePanGesture(sender: UIPanGestureRecognizer) is triggered. Unfortunately…
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How to make Api.ai audio and a dynamic UI with voiceover not interfere with each other

[Edited question] If I have an api.ai discussion app which dynamically creates buttons with the intent names on them: Say I ordered a sandwich and now api.ai is asking me what spread I want, but, ALSO at the same time CHANGES THE UI and SHOWS me the…
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