how can I set both accessibilityIdentifier and accessibilityLabel on a swiftui view

Generated on 8/14/2024

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To set both accessibilityIdentifier and accessibilityLabel on a SwiftUI view, you can use the accessibility modifiers provided by SwiftUI. The accessibilityLabel modifier allows you to customize the label of a view, which is used by accessibility technologies like VoiceOver. You can also use the accessibilityIdentifier modifier to set an identifier for the view, which can be useful for UI testing.

Here's a basic example of how you might set these properties on a SwiftUI view:

Text("Hello, World!")
    .accessibilityLabel("Greeting")
    .accessibilityIdentifier("greetingText")

In the session Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI, it is explained that the accessibilityLabel modifier can now accept a view and will extract the text from the view to set it on the element's label. This allows for more dynamic and context-sensitive labels, which can be particularly useful when you want to append additional information, like a rating, to an element's label without losing the descriptive content SwiftUI already provides.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session "Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI" from WWDC 2024.