This may sound like a bit of an odd question, but this was what I was told this morning by one of our Accessibility managers.
This past June at WWDC, I scheduled a lab session with Apple's accessibility folks for a review. I had the pleasure of working with Ryan who helped give the great VoiceOver Testing Talk from WWDC 2018. I believe I've worked with him before in the labs, but regardless, no matter who I meet with in the Accessibility Labs they always provide me with some new nugget of information that I learn, no matter how well versed I might think I am in Accessibility.
After the labs, I made all the changes that Ryan suggested and also told other developers on my team of what I was taught. In our app we provide various forms, and each field component that appears in the form has a header text which we apply a header trait to.
This allows for the use of a Header Rotor to quickly navigate between all the questions in the form, say if a user wants to return to a previous field etc. I even suggested we should take the time to provide a custom rotor that would allow users to navigate to fields that may be in an error state. If say the user submits the form, and the responses are validated, if 1 or multiple fields be in error we should have a rotor to allow the user to navigate directly to those fields. They may not be able to see the Red text / red outlines of those fields.
This morning, I was told that I needed to undo that. That our headerLabel properties should not be marked with the UIAccessibilityTrait.header trait.
When I stated that it makes navigation of the form much easier via the Headers Rotor, I was told by the Accessibility Manager this is not the case.
I have the MS Teams transcript in front of me, which reads as follows (give or take a few transcript errors)
So I went ahead and I just double checked with two of my friends, who are blind and for them on their end, they both said that they would not actually use that, and could add more complexity, because they have—in addition to being blind—but there's also mobility limitations. So they actually can't even use the Rotor at all. They only can use the swipes.
Does this make sense to anyone, because it doesn't to me? Thoughts on this?
