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Ios swift – How to enable/disable VoiceOver speech programmatically in Swift

Is it possible to enable/disable VoiceOver speech/spoken hints on all items/entirely temporarily? In our App, we have a recording function and VoiceOver doesn’t stop talking during recording and the speech gets recorded.

I would like to know if there is a way.

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    Couldn't achieve above, but wrote a workaround. It no longer announces when recording is started (or when we enter recording view) but still works if user one presses a button.

    // We want to avoid automatic VoiceOver announcement in this view
// Otherwise it's announced during recording
let decoyView = UIView()
decoyView.isAccessibilityElement = true
decoyView.accessibilityTraits = .none
    
// Order accessibility elements, VoiceOver announces first element due to auto focus
self.view.accessibilityElements = [decoyView, yourViewItems]

    The problem happened because when user presses Record, the app enters a new view, which VoiceOver automatically focuses the first accessibility element in that view.


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    Try using the startsMediaSession trait on the button that starts the recording , which will tell VoiceOver to stop announcing its speech output while the recording is being made.

    myButton.accessibilityTraits.insert(.startsMediaSession)

    Use this trait to silence the audio output of an assistive app, such as VoiceOver, during a media session that you don’t want to interrupt. For example, you might use this trait to silence VoiceOver speech while the user is recording audio.

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