iOS 6 Different? what is it?

[David Ward]

Hey Guys,

Does anybody know if tabindex works now in IOS 6? I recently went to a site jw.org and the VoiceOver focus went directly to an accessiblity button..

In ttimes past tabindex didn't work on iOS and forced me to do a bit of trickery to change the VO focus point between webpages.

-David

[David Ward]

Ok it isn't Tabindex, I can't figure out what on this page grabs VoiceOver Focus? It's got to be buried in the Javascript? Anybody seen anything like this.

http://www.jw.org

Thanks

David

PS- I'll have to look the the JS but if anybody is familar with these techniques and how effective they are cross-platform that be great.

[Ryan E. Benson]

A quick search lead me to: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIAccessibility_Protocol/Introduction/Introduction.html, which there is a function called UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning which returns a BOOL (true/false).  So they might have used that somehow.

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[Bryan Garaventa]

Last I checked, UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning() doesn't work in JavaScript. It can't communicate through Safari. I tried quite a bit a few months ago.

 

E.G

 

alert( UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning() );

 

 Fails every time.

[Ted Drake]

It won't work without a native wrapper. It is possible to have a Phonegap app that sends this value to a JavaScript function. It wouldn't be possible with a simple web app. 

We looked into this at Yahoo for some interactive elements, such as gesture tutorials, that are useless for VoiceOver users. 

I believe android has a similar function. I cannot recall the name. 

Ted Drake

Intuit Accessibility 

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