When implementing the large content viewer, UIKit components will usually have a large content title and image configured for you. But if you are developing a custom component, or you want to add info to a native component, you can do so.

Day 127
22 Sep 2022
When implementing the large content viewer, UIKit components will usually have a large content title and image configured for you. But if you are developing a custom component, or you want to add info to a native component, you can do so.

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In UIKit you can create keyboard shortcuts by overriding the keyCommands for your view controller, which is an array of UIKeyCommand. A bit of a different approach to how you'd do it with SwiftUI.

If an image does not convey additional information, maybe it's just used to make the UI look more attractive, it makes sense for VoiceOver to skip it. UIKit: set isAccessibilityElement to false. SwiftUI: create a decorative image explicitly.

You can create your own accessibility elements from scratch. One use-case for doing that is when you do some custom drawing instead of building your UI using or relying on UIKit components. A circular progress bar, could be an example.
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