If you need multiple links embedded in some text (like the classic T&Cs and Privacy policy), the easiest is to use a UITextView & Attributed Strings, and it will work beautifully with VoiceOver. You'll be even able to navigate through links.
In the example, VoiceOver would say: “I agree with the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions, link”. Swipe down, should announce: “Privacy Policy, link” and you can double tap to open it. Swiping down one more time announces: “Terms and Conditions, link”.
let textView = UITextView()
let string = "I agree with the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions"
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string)
attributedString.addAttribute(.link,
value: "https://www.yourdomain.com/pp",
range: NSRange(location: 17, length: 14))
attributedString.addAttribute(.link,
value: "https://www.yourdomain.com/tac",
range: NSRange(location: 40, length: 20))
textView.attributedText = attributedString
extension ViewController: UITextViewDelegate {
func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange, interaction: UITextItemInteraction) -> Bool {
UIApplication.shared.open(URL)
return true
}
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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
Images can automatically scale for accessibility content size categories, by setting the adjustsImageSizeForAccessibilityContentSizeCategory property to true, for any UIImageView you'd like to get its size adjusted. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiaccessibilitycontentsizecategoryimageadjusting/adjustsimagesizeforaccessibilitycontentsizecategory
If you need to send announcement notifications that can step into each other, they will by default, interrupt ongoing announcements. But you can pass attributed strings as parameters too, letting you specify announcements to be queued.
