The link accessibility trait is applied to UI elements that open some web content. It usually appears in-line in the content and represented by underlined text, but not always. VoiceOver will say "link" after the accessibility label.
Day 29
The link accessibility trait
16 Jun 2022
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The .selected accessibility trait indicates when an element has been selected. You’ll notice that VoiceOver announces “selected” before the accessibility label. You can find that in the system for the selected tab in the tab bar, for example.
Please, don't use accessibility labels as ids for your UI tests. It can completely ruin the experience for VoiceOver users. There is actually an accessibility identifier property that you can use instead to uniquely identify your UI elements.
There are details conveying important information that are shown visually with little icons, badges, progress bars, and similar cues that can be missed when they are not added as part of the accessibility label or accessibility value of a UI component.
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