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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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safari OSX voiceover not reading aria label for input

I'm trying to get voiceover to work on safari however, it seems when I tab through elements it doesnt read out the aria-label of the new input box in a certain scenario. Scenario: When tabbing onto the next element and the on blur of the current…
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Jquery IOS voiceover accessibility events - allow double tap on mobile

For accessibility purposes we have a few buttons like: $(".class").on('click touch touchstart touchend', function () { }); So this covers both desktop and mobile. The problem is you have to triple tap in IOS (with voiceover) to fire the event. Is…
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How to tell voice over to read the full name of a state in iOS?

I have a label with the text "Berkeley, CA" and I want its voice over to read "Berkeley, California". I noticed that when I have labels with zip code as well, such as "San Francisco, CA 94106" the voice over knows to convert CA to California…
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Custom message in accessibility

Below is the code snippet for radio button. Requirement is screen reader should read it like a “For an insurance cover of $75,000, the monthly premium is $29.80. Radio button.”
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Dynamically Change isAccessibilityElement

I've got a bit of a weird situation. I need to have an element not be read out by VoiceOver when I use the 2 finger swipe method, but to be read when tapping on it still. The object is part of a TableView cell, and I've given the TableView cell its…
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mac speech synthesis manager, when creating speech channel, returns Parameter error

I have a wrapper for many screen readers and speech systems on mac, windows, and linux, and the only one left to get working is mac. I have followed the examples found on the apple developer site for the speech synthesis manager, but I can't figure…
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iOS: VoiceOver click-through in wrong place

I'm writing an app that uses touchesBegan/Moved/etc to track gestures and draw them on the screen. With VoiceOver on, when I double-tap on the drawing region, the first touch always comes through (to touchesBegan) in the center of the View,…
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Make VoiceOver read the 'title' attribute of an empty

I have a div with background image which is clickable. The div doesn't have any content and I have provided a title to that. How can I enable the iPad VoiceOver feature to read the title for that div? If not title, can we use any ARIA attribute to…
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How to make iOS VoiceOver read View and subview as a whole

I have a UITableView that displays a list of items, with a subclass of UITableViewCell. In that cell, I have a hierarchy of UILabels and subviews like so: UITableViewCell subclass - UILabel a - UILabel b - UILabel c - UIView subclass 1 - UILabel…
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Recognize iOS-Keyboards VoiceOver status

I ty to recognize in my ViewController, wether the InputMode of my TextView is changed to Dictation. This code worked until iOS 7. // In viewDidLoad [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self…
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UIAccessibilityTraitAllowsDirectInteraction and VoiceOver: issue or bug in iOS?

This is a quite strange behavior that 'persecutes' me since iOS 7.0 :) I hope someone of you can help me this time! As you probably know when you are using VoiceOver your gestures are totally different from the 'normal way'. When you need to bypass…
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Detect VoiceOver Unpronounceable Text

After integrating voice over through accessibilityLabels, and testing the interaction alone, it was time to try turning on the voice. Fortunately, it worked perfectly well for english text... But wasn't so lucky with Arabic. Apparently, voice over…
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Use iOS accessibility sounds programmatically

I am aware that one can programmatically use the text-to-speech synthesizer in iOS through the AVSpeechSynthesizer class. However the non-visual interaction with the iOS is based on speech as well as non-speech sound. For instance each time an app…
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phonegap ios work with voiceover

I have an app using phonegap. But When I open voiceover function, it read the out the html code for me. For example . It will read "banner png Image". Is there any method that I can use to skip reading div? Thank you.
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iOS voiceover for vertical input type slider range incorrectly states swipe left right

We have an ionic app that we're now trying to add Voiceover accesibility to. Namely one widget is giving me trouble..
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