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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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How to implement a draggable scrubber like Podcast app when VoiceOver is running?

Apple's Podcast app has an interesting feature available when VoiceOver is running. When a user double taps and holds the scrubber, dragging left or right adjusts the scrubber position . How is this done? I've made my attempts at allowing direct…
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How to fix VoiceOver swiping behavior after stopping and restarting the app, iPhone only?

I have a universal app on which VoiceOver is behaving strangely, but only on the iPhone. When I delete the app and reinstall on either iPhone or iPad, VoiceOver works as expected and everything is fine. But on iPhone, if I stop the app and then…
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VoiceOver does not read checkbox in a wizard in Eclipse

I have wizard and inside the wizard i have a checkbox and a text associated with the checkbox . While testing for accessibility i found that the VoiceOver does not read the text associated with the checkbox , it is read as "(un)checked checkbox".…
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UIWebView Swipe does not work with Voice Over on

I am using a web view to render pages, my web view runs fine with voice over off but when i turn it on double taps works, single finger swipe works but three finger swipe is not working even four finger swipe works for switching apps. Can I get some…
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How do I change the primary Accessibility element in a new ViewController?

I am implementing VoiceOver accessibility in my iOS App pikSpeak which helps blind people to locate iOS different buttons on the screen. When I open a new ViewController the first button that Siri announces is the one on the top-left-most corner.…
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Voice over "double tap to edit" issue

In my iPhone application I use voice over and braille board. In viewWillAppear I set focus and call becomefirstresponder of UITextView element. But even after becomefirstresponder call, Voice over say "Double Tap To edit" not "TextField is editing".…
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VoiceOver reading twice each element - Inconsistent Behavior

I am working on Accessibility. I am using XIB file and I enabled all the views which need to be read by voiceover.Now the issue is first cell in tableview is reading twice by the voiceover. That happens only first time. I have multiple cells in…
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VoiceOver announcing text change OS X

I have a non-editable text view (I can make it a text field, it doesn't matter). I change it programmatically when a user presses a button. I want VoiceOver to announce the change without moving the cursor. So the VO cursor stays on the…
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iOS 7 Voiceover issue with UIButton

I have a voiceover accessible app. In iOS 6 the UIButtons announce something to the user when the button is clicked. in iOS 7, when the user clicks the button, voiceover now announces "selected - - and then announces what I want it to say. I…
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How to set VoiceOver accessibility language for ALL elements at once?

I can set the language for every single element through @property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *accessibilityLanguage and I remember that somewhere I came across a mention about a way to set the language for ALL elements at once. I think it was not…
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Is there an UIAccessibility event when user taps item again?

VoiceOver calls - (void)accessibilityElementDidBecomeFocused { // user activates the item first time } - (void)accessibilityElementDidLoseFocus { // user activates different item } but I need to know, when user taps item again. When user…
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How to make a table view based selector control accessible for VoiceOver?

I have a selector control in my app based on UITableView. The user can scroll the table view and a marker in the center shows selected item. Every selectable item is a table view cell. Example Now I want to make my app VoiceOver compatible for a…
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How to tell VoiceOver that a control has animated away?

User taps control and a different view comes up, animated. VoiceOver still highlights the removed control and it is stuck. User can't interact with the view. This is not in a UIViewController but a custom UIView subclass. How to tell VoiceOver to…
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How to give action feedback with VoiceOver?

I have custom UIControl subclass that acts as toggle button. When the user taps it the button toggles a feature on off. VoiceOver reads the value and hint like suggested by Apple: self.accessibilityValue = @"Toggle alarm on…
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voiceover issue on mac

In my project when it is launched with VoiceOver running and the user tries to use Control-Option-M to access the menu it does not work (meaning the Apple logo is not highlighted). By quitting VoiceOver and relaunching it works fine. I have also…
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