I have a long HTML form that I am trying to make accessible to Voiceover. When I click into a field, interact with it, and then click Done on the keyboard, after a short delay Voiceover is focusing on what appears to be the field most centered on the screen rather than the next element. I tried adding explicit tabindex to all the fields and this did not help. It is not always reproducable, it sometimes works as expected.
Is this expected behavior for Voiceover? Would a user not expect "Done" to take them to the next field (seems like maybe a dumb question since there is also a "Next" button, which works fine)? But as a sighted user I know the "Done" button when I am interacting with a field just means I am done with that field and want to go on to the next action, field whatever.
"Done" dismisses editing mode on VoiceOver. A VoiceOver user would not expect that tapping "done" moves the VO cursor.
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Typically a combobox widget is an input field that launches an associated popup with a bunch of suggestions in the popup. In desktop browsers using keyboard, while the focus stays with the input field, pressing Up/Down arrow keys, the selection within the popup can be changed. Pressing ENTER key populates the input field with current selection in the popup and closes the popup.
For accessibility purpose, the input field is marked role="combobox", the popup is linked with the input field via aria-owns. The AT are indicated the current selection via aria-activedescendant.
While this setup works great in desktop browsers with tools like JAWS/NVDA etc., there seems to be a major issue with voiceover on iOS. On swiping the finger, the virtual cursor moves to the next element in the page from the input field, though I would expect with aria-owns set, the focus to move to the first suggestion item or to the popup.
Any suggestions on how such a combobox widget can be made accessible in iOS with voiceover?
PS: The popup and input field are not siblings in the DOM order.
It sounds like you are creating a custom combobox. If you use the native <select>/<option> elements, the combobox works correctly on ios/voiceover. If you are creating your own, follow the guidance on https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#combobox. You mentioned several ARIA attributes so perhaps you're already following the advice on that page.
Swiping right with voiceover will move the focus to the next element in the DOM. If your dropdown list is hidden, then focus won't move to it. Double tapping on your <input> should display the dropdown list.
I'm working on an App with Objective-C but I have a problem with my form.
I have several inputs view (UITextField) on it, and one with a particularly behavior.
When I select the checkbox, I prevent the user typing on the view and looks the view as disable( grayed out and without the blue bar flashing blue bar ) and keep the keyboard open.
When I set the UITextField as disable, the keyboard is automatically hidden.
Someone knows how to keep the keyboard open?
I need to something like the image attached, but without the blue bar flashing blue bar.
I did the logic to prevent the the user enter data on the input , but the keyboard is automatically hidden.
If the text field is disabled, the user cannot type into it and the dismissal of the keyboard is correct. You should not try to fight against that. (It sounds like you're trying to disable the keyboard for the wrong reasons anyway.)
In this case, it sounds like your timing is just off. When the user clicks the checkbox, your code responds. What you are doing there is just wrong. You should respond by moving the first responder to the next enabled text field yourself, and then disabling the first text field. That way, you are not disabling the text field while it is first responder; that's your whole mistake right there.
I am working on a ToDo list app wherein I keep the focus on the textbox input after the user adds a ToDo item.
Now, the problem is, when the user adds some text input and hits the add button, the focus on the textbox is lost so the keyboard disappears and then the focus gets back to the textbox. So, the keyboard disappears and appears again in a short interval. As you can imagine, this is bad UX.
How do I set the keyboard to be shown explicitly when the focus is on the input button?
I fixed it by setting the focus onto the textbox first when I click the add button then do the actual adding stuff.
This might be kind of hard to explain in a way to easily understand.. but basically I am having an issue when first tapping into a text field. When the user starts typing text, if the text reaches the end of the textfield, rather than the view scroll with the cursor as the user continues to type, the cursor just stops at the end of the textfield, but the field continues to register inputs. if the user closes the keyboard, and re-enters the textfield then it actually works as it should, scrolling along with the new letters the user types beyond the length of the textfield.
Is this some strange setting I have on my text field? Is this a bug with iOS 8? I don't even know where to begin to look to solve this issue.
You can test by yourself by cloning this repo https://github.com/sey/ios-keyboard-test.
The problem is the following:
When you enter text in a UITextField and you want to quickly tap a button which position is close to the keyboard the button does not receive touch event at first. You need to wait a small amount of time before tapping on the button does anything.
In the linked project the button action is set to clear the text field. If you enter text and touch the button quickly you will see that the text field does not get cleared and you'll have to touch the button again. If you tap on the button that is on top of the text field (not close to the keyboard) everything work as expected.
I suspect this is a bug from Apple. And I suspect this comes from the fact that some keys on the keyboard show other keys when you long press them (such as E, U). And maybe a hidden frame prevents from touching the button immediately after entering text.
My questions are:
Can you reproduce the bug? And do you know if this has already been
reported with a workaround or else?
[EDIT] Please test in landscape mode.