[Accessibility] Accessibility / 508 compliance ?

[iliekdags]

Movie ListView Example : iOS Accessibility (Screen Reader) is not reading anything, even the plain text elements on the screen. The images are skipped entirely, as if they were background images or something.

Is there a way to get accessibility / screen reader mode activated?
If not, is it planned (soon)?
Or... do I have to go back to cordova?

This is a 100% breaking issue for my company. I guess I was dumb to assume "native" would include accessibility support.

[roman01la]

+1

I believe React Native components does not expose accessibility props to iOS, I'm not an expert, but it seems true.

[frantic]

We definitely do support that. See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Libraries/Components/View/View.js#L69
I know @vjeux implemented the support in ObjC land that automagically makes UI accessible, but maybe his change was lost during refactoring. cc @nicklockwood

[iliekdags]

I figured out the image problem (read the docs 😑) by adding accessible={true} but this prop doesn't appear to be available on Text components. How do we make the non-touchable Text components still readable?

On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:01, Alexander Kotliarskyi notifications@github.com wrote:

We definitely do support that. See https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/Libraries/Components/View/View.js#L69
I know @vjeux implemented the support in ObjC land that automagically makes UI accessible, but maybe his change was lost during refactoring. cc @nicklockwood

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[vjeux]

All the text elements should be accessible by default. Need to ensure that the accessibility features that we have in the internal codebase are ported to open source.

[hapasa]

There appears to be code looking for accessiblityLabel from the UIView.
Is there a way to set that from javascript?

[hapasa]

Ok, the following works: <Text accessibilityLabel='Hey, I'm accessible!'>Hello World</Text>
But accessibilityLabel should default to 'Hello World' in the above.

[ide]

0.5.0-rc includes accessibility improvements: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.5.0-rc

Can someone familiar with accessibility report whether the improvements are good enough and open up more specific issues if there are areas that still need to be addressed?

[brentvatne]

ping @wesleyahall

[christopherdro]

@wesleyahall Any updates on this issue?

[brentvatne]

I'm using accessibility features extensively on an app to integrate with KIF for acceptance testing, everything seems to be working well. If you stumble upon this and accessibility tools within React Native aren't currently meeting your needs, please open an issue and let us know what your use cases are! Thanks!