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Re: Unexpected Voiceover Tab Order and Focussing on Hybrid App

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 12, 2015 6:55AM

On 12/03/2015 12:27, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>> I know that Voiceover can sometimes work from the top of the screen down when determining tab order, but there must be a reliable way of influencing that so that the tab order makes sense to Voiceover users.
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> The only option you have other than layout to control reading order is shouldGroupAccessibilityChildren. This property will cause VoiceOver to respect the view's grouping of child elements as a whole rather than intermixing them in the reading order with other views children.
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>> Also, at times, there is a requirement to move focus into an overlay panel, and then back to the original focus location when the panel closes. Getting that to work as expected is proving a challenge too.
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> To set focus call UIAccessibilityPostNotification with UIAccessibilityLayoutChangedNotification as the first parameter and the second with the object to set focus to.

If it's a hybrid app, wouldn't this need use JavaScript's focus()
method? (serious question, as I've not played with building hybrid apps
myself).

P
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