Accessibility (VoiceOver) on NSAttributedString

Question

I have a block of text in a UITextView built using NSAttributedString . I require VoiceOver to say something extra when certain portions of the text is touched.

Is it possible to add accessibility attributes to NSAttributedString ?

Answer 1

Speech attributes for attributed strings can be used in order to customize the way to vocalize the label , value and hint accessibility properties.

Watch the WWDC 2017 : What's New in Accessibility video on Apple's site whose content is perfectly summarized here .

Take a look at the Attributed Accessibility Properties section where an example is provided and well explained.

Answer 2

I think one solution to this would be a custom subclass of UITextView . Then you can return an array of UIAccessibilityCustomAction in an override of accessibilityCustomActions . These objects not only describe the actions taken by the text view, but they also allow VoiceOver to execute them.