iOS: Carry contextual information for dates, times, and numbers

[amarlette]

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Description

Dates and Numbers can be very difficult to correctly contextualize when screen readers try to vocalize the text. It would be preferable if logic for dates and times were encapsulated so that custom logic for accessibility labels would not have to be created every time.

React Native version:

v0.63

Expected Behavior

One idea would be pseudo code like this:

<Text type="date" style={...}>
 01/12/1990
</Text>

VoiceOver would read (for a US locale): "January twelfth, nineteen ninety."

iOS Details

There are particular classes on native iOS that support this kind of encapsulation and context automatically like NSDateFormatter, NSDateComponents, and NSNumberFormatter.

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