When creating AXCustomContent objects for accessibilityCustomContent, you can specify the importance of the data. If it is high, it will always be presented by VoiceOver. You could potentially ask the user if that data is of importance to them.
Day 102
Set AXCustomContent importance for VoiceOver
28 Aug 2022
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VoiceOver will traverse elements from left-right, and from top-bottom. If for any reason you need to change that order, in SwiftUI you can change the accessibility sort priority. A higher priority number in the container means it will go first.
Custom actions are also great for actions that are executed with a gesture that is overridden by VoiceOver. Think of the unread, flag and archive hidden options that you can make visible by swiping left/right on a message row in the Mail app.
Have you noticed that the first time you select an element on Apple Podcast's mini player, VoiceOver says "Mini player", and then, it describes the selected element? It gives the user more context on what "feature" those elements belong to. This can be achieved in UIKit by configuring the accessibility container type of the mini player with .semanticGroup and giving it an accessibility label, in this case: "Mini player". https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nsobject-swift.class/accessibilitycontainertype https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiaccessibilitycontainertype/semanticgroup
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