UIAccessibility issue with scrolling

[palaniraja]

It seems not compatible with UIAccessibility. For eg., scrollview with voiceover is accessible with three finger scrolling, but iCarousel is missing the feature.

[thisisjeffwong]

How should Accessibility work? One thing I wonder how convey horizontal scrolling vs vertical scrolling. When the user first arrives at the carousel. Perhaps just an announcement?

[nicklockwood]

I've really struggled with this. I don't understand the accessibility APIs well enough to make it work, basically. Hoping someone will fix it with a pull request, but I've been waiting in vain so far.

[thisisjeffwong]

I might be able to do it if I can allocate time for it in our current sprint.

Thanks for making such a useful and configurable widget!

[dral3x]

3 and half year has passed. No news on this issue?

I notice there are 2 PR opened, PR #468 and #653

[acecilia]

Seems like there are no answers about this topic. I also need the accessibility features. There are already two open pull requests claiming to add the support. @nicklockwood can you give us some feedback? Thanks

[dral3x]

We implemented accessibility in the simplest way possible. Take a look at our fork if you want https://github.com/spreaker/iCarousel

[kaannesinn]

If you comment the lines below on iCarousel.m file, iCarousel view and its custom subviews will be accessible.

//set up accessibility
// self.accessibilityTraits = UIAccessibilityTraitAllowsDirectInteraction;
// self.isAccessibilityElement = YES;

[acecilia]

What I end up doing is customizing the value of accessibilityLabel and accessibilityValue in the subview I put in the carousel items:

    private func accessibilitySetup() {
        accessibilityLabel = "Carousel item"
        let messageElements = [
            bgCircleTitleLabel.text,
            bgCircleSubtitleLabel.text,
            bottomTitleLabel.text,
            bottomSubtitleLabel.text
        ].compactMap { $0?.isEmpty == false ? $0 : nil }
        accessibilityValue = messageElements.joined(separator: " ")
    }

The elements inside the messageElements array are subviews of the carousel item. That function just call it when setting up the carousel item (everytime the item is changed).