Day 9

IPA for homographs and your app name

27 May 2022

VoiceOver accessibilitySpeechIPANotation iOS

accessibilitySpeechIPANotation is sometimes handy in English where a word is spelled the same but pronounced differently depending of the context. Some examples are: live, read... Or you may want to correct how VoiceOver pronounces your app's name!

Example shows how you can specify the correct pronunciation for the text “Most read” and for the word “Live” in the context of direct broadcasting, using the IPA notation. The code sets an accessibilityAttributeLabel to the UILabel (or UIView) with the string and a dictionary containing the accessibilitySpeechIPANotation attribute key and the “Most rēd” or “laɪv” values.

Example code in the image:

let liveNewsChannelView = UIView()
let attributedLabel = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "24 hour news channel. ")

attributedLabel.append(NSAttributedString(string: "Live",attributes: [.accessibilitySpeechIPANotation: "laɪv"]))

liveNewsChannelView.accessibilityAttributedLabel = attributedLabel

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Day 10

IPA notation so VoiceOver says paella right

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Day 8

Fix pronunciation with accessibilitySpeechIPANotation

An interesting speech attribute for attributed accessibility labels is accessibilitySpeechIPANotation that lets you specify how VoiceOver should pronounce a label with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsattributedstring/key/accessibilityspeechipanotation

VoiceOver accessibilityLabel accessibilitySpeechIPANotation iOS

Day 47

summaryElement announces on app launch

The .summaryElement accessibility trait causes VoiceOver to announce that element when the app starts. The element won't get the focus though, and the order is not affected. A candidate for this trait could be the rings info in the Activity app.

VoiceOver iOS isSummaryElement

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