Day 194
28 Nov 2022
Let's quickly remember a few of VoiceOver's most important gestures that will let you do some of the most basic actions including selection, interacting, navigating, and scrolling.
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Imagine playing a piano with VoiceOver. You'd have to find the key you want to play and then double tap. It would be a very difficult experience. With the .allowsDirectInteraction accessibility trait, VoiceOver passes through touch gestures. Use carefully! And only when it really makes sense to be able to handle controls directly with touch. Other examples could be a drawing app or some games.
It is useful to know these VoiceOver gestures to activate/deactivate Screen Curtain, pause/resume VoiceOver, easily simulate a long press for opening context menus, or quickly move the cursor to the screen's first or last elements.
In SwiftUI you won't find the .notEnabled accessibility trait. Instead, you can just configure a view as such with .disabled(true), and pass false to enable it. VoiceOver will announce it as "dimmed". https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/disabled(_:)
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