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[iOS] accessibilityElementsHidden does not work if the parent view is accessible #46098
Description
Description
When a parent view has the accessible prop set, VoiceOver reads all the text nodes and accessibility labels of its children even if one of them has a parent with the accessibilityElementsHidden / aria-hidden prop set.
Steps to reproduce
- Open the Expo Snack on an iOS device with Expo Go.
- Enable VoiceOver (triple press on the power button, if enabled in the settings. Otherwise enable it in Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver).
- Verify that VoiceOver reads all three lines in both cases when it should only read "First layout" in the second one, like TalkBack on Android does.
React Native Version
0.74.5
Affected Platforms
Runtime - iOS
Output of npx react-native info
System:
OS: macOS 14.6.1
CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Pro
Memory: 536.33 MB / 32.00 GB
Shell:
version: "5.9"
path: /opt/homebrew/bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node:
version: 21.6.1
path: ~/.local/share/mise/installs/node/21.6.1/bin/node
Yarn:
version: 1.22.21
path: /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
npm:
version: 10.2.4
path: ~/.local/share/mise/installs/node/21.6.1/bin/npm
Watchman:
version: 2024.03.18.00
path: /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods:
version: 1.15.2
path: /Users/valou/.local/share/mise/installs/ruby/3.2.3/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms:
- DriverKit 23.2
- iOS 17.2
- macOS 14.2
- tvOS 17.2
- visionOS 1.0
- watchOS 10.2
Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2023.1 AI-231.9392.1.2311.11255304
Xcode:
version: 15.2/15C500b
path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java:
version: 17.0.10
path: /Users/valou/.local/share/mise/installs/java/adoptopenjdk-17.0.10+7/bin/javac
Ruby:
version: 3.2.3
path: /Users/valou/.local/share/mise/installs/ruby/3.2.3/bin/ruby
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
react:
installed: 18.2.0
wanted: 18.2.0
react-native:
installed: 0.74.5
wanted: 0.74.5
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: Not found
newArchEnabled: Not found
iOS:
hermesEnabled: Not found
newArchEnabled: Not found
Stacktrace or Logs
N/A
Reproducer
https://snack.expo.dev/@vbriand/voiceover-accessible-bug
Screenshots and Videos
accessible_bug.mov
Reacted by Bogdan Cerovac, Christopher Wilkinson and Daniel C
Activity
Hosam-hsm commentedon Dec 23, 2024
Facing same issue. @vbriand Were you able to solve this?
vbriand commentedon Dec 23, 2024
Sadly no, but I haven't had much time to delve much further into the issue to be honest.
TechWilk commentedon Jan 15, 2025
I've run into the same issue today. It looks like if you set
accessibilityLabel=""as well as (or instead of)accessibilityElementsHiddenit works around the issue for now.My use case is an icon component (similar to
react-native-vector-icons) which uses characters of a font-based icon pack. Clearly you don't want the screen reader to read out characters likejwhen you're showing asettings-icon.mpolmeta commentedon Jun 8, 2026
Should be fixed by b60f533