Have you ever seen VoiceOver randomly focusing on elements of the previous view when presenting a custom modal view? That can be fixed by letting the system know that the presented view is modal in terms of accessibility.
Day 207
Keep VoiceOver in modals with isModal
11 Dec 2022
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When presenting a UI component that overlays the existing UI, you may have found that VoiceOver starts to randomly jump between the overlaid UI and the elements underneath. To avoid that, you can set its accessibilityViewIsModal to true. When setting the accessibilityViewIsModal to true for a view, VoiceOver will ignore its sibling views, treating it as if it was a modal. Useful when presenting custom popups, popovers, modals, action sheets, etc. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nsobject-swift.class/accessibilityviewismodal
Custom actions work as great on Switch Control as they do in VoiceOver. It makes navigation much, much, faster and you’ll be able to find all those custom actions in the Switch Control menu.
VoiceOver announces "Tab bar" or "Toolbar", the first time you select an element in one of these components. If you are implementing your custom versions of these, you can mirror this behaviour, as seen in previous tweets. https://x.com/dadederk/status/1558045414082871298?s=20&t=LA95j22apvWsUqShqWGBzA
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