Good accessibility labels are at the core of good accessible apps. It should be a localized succinct string that tells as much as possible about the component (without including its type) and provides context avoiding verbosity and redundancy.
Day 3
What makes a good accessibilityLabel
21 May 2022
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It is possible to embed icons within text using NSTextAttachment and NSAttributedString. If you do, please remember to override the accessibility label, otherwise VoiceOver will announce it as "Attachment.png File".
Example code in the image:
```swift
let magnifyingGlassIcon = UIImage(systemName: "magnifyingglass")!
let searchButton = UIButton()
let searchTutorialLabel = UILabel()
searchButton.accessibilityLabel = "search"
let textAttachment = NSTextAttachment(image: magnifyingGlassIcon)
let string = "Select the
Accessibility Labels are not just for VoiceOver, and Accessibility User Input Labels are not just for Voice Control. The latter will also help Full Keyboard Access users to find elements on the screen by different names. Good API design!
With attributed accessibility labels, your app could now, for example, greet your users in different languages. Note that it will change to the voice of the corresponding language you are switching to. Example code in the image: ```swift let greetingLessonView = UIView() let bcp47LanguageCode = "es-Es" let translatedPhrase = "¡Buenos días! " let attributedLabel = NSMutableAttributedString(string: translatedPhrase,attributes: [.accessibilitySpeechLanguage: bcp47LanguageCode]) attributedLabel.append(NSAttributedString(string: "Means: good morning!")) greetingLessonView.accessibilityAttributedLabel = attributedLabel ```
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