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Switch Control user testing

Switch Control user testing - iOS Tutorial

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Switch Control user testing

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- [Narrator] Earlier we talked about how view as Wikipedia wasn't read to a voiceover user as a button. That same missing trait will also be very problematic for switch control users. We can see this in action by triple clicking the home button and enabling switch control. Switch control will start sweeping through our interface. Switch control users generally read their screens just fine, so switch control just highlights the elements that the user can act upon. It's skipping over our name, overview, and elevation views, because those are just static text, and there'd be no reason to select them. However, apparently our Wikipedia button isn't actually a button. It has no accessibility traits to mark it as a button. A switch control user would have to go through a lot of trouble, if they wanted to learn more about this bridge. It also completely misses our images, and in fact there's no ability for a switch control user to even scroll down to see or select the images. The experience…

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