Sometimes, buttons change meaning, for example when toggled. An example is a play button, tap it and it becomes a pause button. In such case, updating its accessibility label will be clearer than trying to convey the change with traits or values.
Day 89
Update accessibilityLabel when toggling
15 Aug 2022
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Some recommendations for improving your accessibility labels: don't add the element type, avoid redundancy and verbosity, localize... @MobileA11y has an excellent blog post on it: https://mobilea11y.com/blog/writing-great-labels/ @jordyn2493 has a great video too: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/254/
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