Accessibility Check fail when using TextInputLayout

Question

I\'m using the new TextInputLayout provided by Android.support to do floating label. But it will fail Espresso Accessibility Check because \"View is missing speakable text n

Answer 1

You can make a TextView that has

android:text="My Announcement For Edit Text"
android:labelFor="@id/my_edit_text".

Visibility = gone and visibility = invisible will make it so this label is not announced. Also if you set height and width to 0dp, this will not announce. Instead, constrain the view to be off the screen using something like:

app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="parent"

So your textview will look like this: