Initial VoiceOver selection

Question

I'm adding VoiceOver support to my app. So far, so good, but I'd really like to be able to specify which element is the first one spoken after a UIAccessibilityScreenChangedNotification. I haven't seen a way to do this. Making something the summary element doesn't really seem to do it. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

THis has always been perfectly possible to do.

Just write something along the lines of:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];

    UIAccessibilityPostNotification(UIAccessibilityScreenChangedNotification,
                                self.myFirstElement);
}
@end

This works for both the UIAccessibilityScreenChangedNotification and the UIAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification. More info: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIAccessibility_Protocol/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/c/data/UIAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification And here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/Accessibility/AccessibilityfromtheViewControllersPerspective.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007457-CH2-SW1

Now for Swift 5

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    UIAccessibility.post(notification: UIAccessibility.Notification.screenChanged,
                         argument: myFirstElement)
}