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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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iOS Voiceover reading header size outloud, how do i disable

the following tag works, except it adds heading level 4 at the end of the entries on aria-tab

is there some way to stop it reading the…
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Moving the cursor in a screen reader

Background I have a site which has a master/detail sort of design. The master view is a column chart where clicking on one of the columns (each column represents one month) changes the detail view (which is a nested table listing some details of…
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-[AXSpeechAction retain]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x1c37e2b0

I am using the AVSpeechSynthesizer() in Swift for reading some directions and heading instructions for visually impaired users. Yet, after some time the app crashes with: -[AXSpeechAction retain]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x1c37e2b0. Of…
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What is the meaning of 'role','title','alt' in DOJO Mobile

I am a dojo fresher, Here is a mobile application which developed by Dojo Mobile. and I found it can't work when I open the ios VoiceOver. the data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/ScrollableView" component can't scroll any more. I checked the dojo website…
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BottomBar BarButtonItem Voice Over accessibility is broken

I've noticed that there are some issues with standard Voice Over behaviour with BarButtonItems when they are placed in the bottom bar of a View. In a test app I've made the following simple view With the following code I'm updating all 3 text…
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How to get voiceover focus when my elements are not seen in the screen but present in the page

I have a HTML5 app. This app contains some tab elements. Also some long form. When I flick through in voiceover , the voiceover reads the elemnts way down the screen but they are not visible in the screen. Thus, when I doublle click to do an…
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WAI-ARIA HTML. How to force 2 divs to be read out as one?

I'm new to ARIA and I'm having trouble combining two divs (both just text) into one readout. The layout is an iOS like table with 2 text labels in one row. The idea is to readout the row as a whole as opposed to labels one by one. I have found the…
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What is UIAccessibilityTraitUpdatesFrequently in iOS UIAccessibility?

I'm developing application which is also for blind people. I'm using UITextField, where 508/VA(Professional Testing team) asking us to implement UIAccessibilityTraitUpdatesFrequently. I went through documentation from Apple, but I didn't got any…
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iOS Voice Over to announce new view titles when pushed/popped on a UINavigationController

I wondered if it was possible (and desirable from an accessibility functionality point of view) to have Voice Over announce the title of each new view that the user goes onto. So something like Voice over saying "Address Book, header" followed by…
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Voiceover support in ObjC++

I have an ObjC++ code for iOS. (It has, UI elements comes from c++ code). I would like to support VoiceOver. Could somebodyshow me some examples about the VO interfaces? I have found some documentation about VO…
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iOS Voice Over only reads out the title of any alert views

My accessibility work on my app continues. The next issue I've discovered is that whenever an alertView appears, voice over only reads out the following Alert Alert Title Even though I believe it's meant to read out the Alert Body as well. To work…
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Announce everything in a UIWebView using VoiceOver?

My app is primarily loading text-based HTML files into a UIWebView. When a new HTML file is loaded, I'd like it to be read in its entirety to VoiceOver users. Right now, it reads only the headings within

tags, and then stops. It works great if…

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Accessibility Voice Over loses focus on Segmented SubView

I'm working on an Accessibility project where I have a segmentedController in the NavigationBar. Almost everything is working fine until the focus comes at the middle (2/3) SegmentedController. It won't speak the the accessibilityLabel.. See my…
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-[UITableViewCellAccessibility _accessibilityReuseChildren:forMockParent:] crash

On fabric.io/crashlytics, we got a lot of UITableView related accessibility crashes. Ive seen it happen when VoiceOver is active. It also looks like it is only related to iOS 8.1.2 and 8.2. We have not seen any other iOS versions crash on it. Is…
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UIPickerView does not react on voiceover within UITableview

I have an UItableView with multiple UIPickerViews embedded. One of the UIPickerViews does not respond properly when selecting and VoiceOver is enabled. The other UIPickerViews and DateViews do respond properly. VoiceOver will tell the number of…
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