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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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Accessibility: Voicerover does not move focus to select element

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UIAccessibility and Apple Pay voice-over interaction issue

I am noticing some strange behavior with the interaction of the application, accessibility, and Apple Pay. If a user does anything to dismiss the Apple Pay sheet while voice-over is active, the name of the application is re-read when voice-over…
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Change label for custom unordered list character for screen readers

If you implement a custom unordered list character, screen readers (or at least VoiceOver) will announce the name of that character you used before it announces each list item. If instead you didn't change the bullet character, VoiceOver will…
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Add text to speak before announcing label's text

I have a label in my app that the user should be able to tap on with VoiceOver enabled to have it speak the text of that label. However, I want it to always say something before it reads the label's text. I tried to set the accessibilityLabel via…
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Phonegap / Cordova + Talkback resulting on actions being fired twice

I'm working on an App with Phonegap + AngularJS and when i touch on any item on screen, the ScreenReader speaks twice. I'm on android 4.4.2 with cordova + AngularJS = ngTouch. Have Someone had this same problem? On iOS with VoiceOver active…
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What causes VoiceOver to miss in-page links?

Situation: iOS 7.1 VoiceOver is Enabled Hyperlink () points to: target element on the page (
page contents
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iOS8 When using VoiceOver content of the collection view is scrolled to beginning

I have simple collection view created programmatically with build in horizontal layout and 50 items. When I enable VoiceOver to speak content of each cell, scroll position is changed to beginning on first item. I would like to preserve scroll…
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Handling voice over accessibility standard gestures

I am trying to handle the touch to explore and one finger slide gestures when in the voice over mode, for my scroll view that has multiple buttons. I am implementing the UIAccessibilityFocus accessibilityElementDidBecomeFocused protocol to update my…
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Can I work around this iOS 8 Voiceover bug in UIWebView?

There's a bug in iOS 8.0 with Voiceover in UIWebView. I've filed it on Apple's bug report site and also made a copy available on OpenRadar where you can read it. Summary: Consider a UIViewController containing a UIWebView whose HTML content is…
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VoiceOver pronunciation of numbers as years

Let’s say I have a label that contains “1877”. The way I have it now is that VoiceOver tells me the contents of the label is “one thousand eight hundred seventy seven”. What I’d like it to say is “Eighteen hundred seventy seven”. Is there a way to…
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Applescript to "start Dictation" and "stop Dictation" depending on menu

I have on Applescript to start and another one to stop Dictation. I tried to run them together and it only starts Dictation but does not stop it. I tried the key code way but this script is to be used with VoiceOver and that method does not work. Is…
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Applescript to "quit current application" dialog

I am trying to make an Applescript to run with VoiceOver to popup a dialog asking to quit the current application. I was able to get one to work but it only works some of the time.I believe this is because of memory issues in some applications, that…
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iOS VoiceOver – implement “x of y” read-out in a standard UIView?

Using VoiceOver in iOS, when looking at something like a segmented controller, VoiceOver reads the segments and their index, i.e. “Selected: Something: 2 of 4”. I have a custom UIView container which holds a few buttons, and I’d like to replicate…
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VoiceOver does not read equal messages in a website

I have created a chat in HTML5 and I included WAI-ARIA roles and attributes to the HTML code in order to inform screen reader users about new messages. Next, I show the code that I have:
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