There are a few accessibility settings you can check for, or get notifications in case these preferences change. This is especially important when developing custom components as they will mostly work with UIKit controls.

There are a few accessibility settings you can check for, or get notifications in case these preferences change. This is especially important when developing custom components as they will mostly work with UIKit controls.

The equivalent of using a .semanticGroup accessibilityContainerType in UIKit, would be to use the .accessibilityElement(children: ) modifier with the .contain option in SwiftUI. Here's a refresher with some use-cases: https://x.com/dadederk/status/1558790851496742914

Too much data can overwhelm users. Very little is an incomplete experience. It is hard to find a balance on verbosity and the users may have different preferences. To help with this issue, the AXCustomContent APIs let you mark data as optional.

Love this feature! Yahoo released the possibility to explore charts with audio, in the finance app, when using screen readers in 2019. You can do now something very similar since iOS 15. https://coolblindtech.com/yahoo-finance-app-makes-charts-accessible-to-blind-and-partially-sighted-users/ You can move your finger in the x-axes, and it will play a sound with a different pitch depending on the data in the y-axes, making it easier to identify trends in the graphs. You need to conform to the AXChart protocol by implementing the accessibilityChartDescriptor property. Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/audio-graphs WWDC21 session: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10122/
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