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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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UIAccessibility in gridView - doesn't see new cells

In my project I have tableView, as a row there is a custom UITableViewCell, that has one of it property - GMGridView (its similar to a UICollectionView), it has its delegate methods: - (GMGridViewCell *)GMGridView:(GMGridView *)gridView…
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How can I make iOS with voiceover allow 'drawing' with finger?

I'm currently working on the accessibility of an rich web application that includes taking a signature with jSignature, and part of the brief from the client is it must be very accessible. Much of the accessibility work is done, but in respect to…
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Jquery tabbed menu not working properly with VoiceOver Screen Reader on MAC

I have a basic tabbed menu, built with Jquery. The tabbed content is a list of links displayed via html. If you hover over the tab the information shows. If you use the VoiceOver application and the keyboard the tab header shows the hover state, yet…
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accessibilityIncrement / Decrement not called

I looked and cannot find an answer that works for me. I have subclassed UIControl to create a double-knob slider control. I want each knob to be available for voiceover. To do this, I create UIAccessibilityElements and add them to an array: func…
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Disabling accessibility for a table column

I have a normal NSTableView that displays a list of tracks. I have dedicated a table column to displaying an icon that indicates which track is currently playing. I'm working on adding fuller VoiceOver support and I don't like how when each row in…
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Setting accessibility hint to UINavigationItem

I would like the voiceover to read out a custom message after the title for the view is read out. To achieve this, I have set the accessibility hint for the navigation item. self.navigationItem.accessibilityHint= @"Custom message."; However the…
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VoiceOver: ViewControllers in PageViewControllers are announcing wrong page numbers

Here is the demo app: It is a pageViewController with 2 viewControllers. If you turn voiceOver on and three finger tap on anyway of the viewController, voiceOver will announce page 2 of 3, which is pretty weird cause there have no three pages and no…
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VoiceOver in UIWebView doesn't read phone number properly

I saw a relevant question (from which I'm steeling some text) however the difference here is the phone number is not in my code but in a webpage being loaded in UIWebView. The UIWebView has a phone number: 1-1xx-2xx-9565 Currently VO read it as…
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Bootstrap dropdown menu focus issues

I am making a HTML5/Bootstrap iOS app and I am trying to resolve a couple of issues. The first issue is that when I double tap outside the dropdown menu, to close it, focus stays in the same position on the page where focus was in the menu. It was…
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VoiceOVer and Bootstrap menu modal

I have a menu button that opens a drop down menu modal. One is how I prevent VoiceOver from reading right off the menu and second when I double tap outside the menu to close focus goes to the parent page and not back to the menu button.
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How can I hide an (hidden) NSView from the accessibility tree?

I am using hidden NSButtons in my OS X app to provide keyboard shortcuts. How can I hide these views from the accessibility tree? I have tried this: button.accessibilityElement = NO; button.accessibilityEnabled = NO; button.accessibilityLabel =…
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set iOS Voice Over on top of page on cordova state change

I experienced that iOS voice Over does not move to the top element when a state change occurs on cordova using angular. Android talkback does this behaviour, as it is the expected for Voice Over users. I've tried everything, but nothing seems to…
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OS X NSStatusItem How to set the accessibility title for VoiceOver

There is no direct API (as far as I can see) but some applications seem to have it. Although Apple's own icons (e.g. fast user switching, keyboard layout switching) do not have it.
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How to add additional description for voice over (only)

I have a page that has 10 search results. The first result is more of a answer card (similar to answers you see as the 1st result in google). Now I am trying to figure out a way to add additional description to the answer card just for voice…
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Force Voiceover to speak text in Web Browsers (OS X)

I'm trying to make a complex webapp accessible. The piece I'm working on right now involves getting form field with validation to play nicely with screen readers. The overall structure is an input tag (#input-with-validation) with javascript that…
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