如何使叙述者正确对待 NavigationView 中的组

Question

I have simple navigation view:

<NavigationView>
    <NavigationView.MenuItems>
        <NavigationViewItemHeader Content="Home"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Customers"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Orders"/>
        <NavigationViewItemSeparator/>
        <NavigationViewItemHeader Content="Reports"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Customers"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Orders"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Sales"/>
        <NavigationViewItemSeparator/>
        <NavigationViewItemHeader Content="Sales Charts"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Customer"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Product"/>
        <NavigationViewItem Content="Time"/>
    </NavigationView.MenuItems>
    <ContentFrame/>
</NavigationView>

You can see there are groups defined using NavigationViewItemHeader and NavigationViewItemSeparator . Narrator does not take account of this and reads all items as if they were flat members of the same collection. I cannot group these items in <Grid> or <StackPanel> (as recommended in msft docs), as NavigationView does not render such items at all.

How I can achieve good results without manually creating automation peers and specifying my own groups?

Answer 1

I think there isn't much you can do without wrapping them (which you said doesn't work, might work on the WInUI 2 one though) or creating an AutomationPeer since the NavigationView automationpeer treats each of them as a separate item (as they are). If you need more granual control over this (having groups etc), hierarchical NavigationViewItems might be a good workaround/solution