Is it possible to assign an accessibility action to a UILabel?

Question

In our current UI, next to certain labels, we have a help-tip button that when clicked, explains the details of what the label references. As such, VoiceOver identifies the

Answer 1

Absolutely! You can do this by using UIAccessibilityCustomActions on the accessibility element rather than using tap gesture recognizers. This is because accessibility operates differently than normal users and single tapping while the voice over focus lands somewhere will not give you the desired result as in the case of a normal use, nor will it permit you to execute multiple options on the same accessibility element.

At their recent WWDC, Apple put out an excellent video explaining how to add UIAccessibilityCustomActions to any kind of accessibility element. If you start this video 33 minutes in, you will be able to see how this is implemented.

Once in place, your Voice Over users will be able to scroll through the options and select the one that most suits his/her intentions, thereby permitting multiple actions to be accessible from the same UILabel.