Custom UITableViewCell trouble with UIAccessibility elements
- by ojreadmore
No matter what I try, I can't keep my custom UITableViewCell from acting like it should under the default rules for UIAccessiblity. I don't want this cell to act like an accessibility container (per se), so following this guide I should be able to make all of my subviews accessible, right?! It says to make each element accessible separately and make sure the cell itself is not accessible.
- (BOOL)isAccessibilityElement
{
return NO;
}
- (NSString *)accessibilityLabel
{
return nil;
}
- (NSInteger)accessibilityElementCount
{
return 0;
}
- (id)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style reuseIdentifier:(NSString *)reuseIdentifier //cells use this reusage stuff
{
if (self = [super initWithStyle:style reuseIdentifier:reuseIdentifier])
{
[self setIsAccessibilityElement:NO];
sub1 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1)];
[sub1 setAccessibilityLanguage:@"es"];
[sub1 setIsAccessibilityElement:YES];
[sub1 setAccessibilityLabel:sub1.text]
sub2 = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1)];
[sub2 setAccessibilityLanguage:@"es"];
[sub2 setIsAccessibilityElement:YES];
[sub2 setAccessibilityLabel:sub2.text]
The voice over system reads the contents of the whole cell all at once, even though I'm trying to stop that behavior. I could say
[sub2 setIsAccessibilityElement:NO];
but that would would make this element entirely unreadable. I want to keep it readable, but not have the whole cell be treated like a container (and assumed to be the English language). There does not appear to be a lot of information out there on this, so at the very least I'd like to document it.
