Skip to content

[Accessibility] Add a reading mode function for screen reader #971

@andrea-martinez-dev

Description

@andrea-martinez-dev

Introduction

It woud be useful to integrate a reading mode function to instruct the screen reader to spell a word char by char with punctuation.

Details

iOS exposes a speechSpellsOutCharacters to do this. I don't know if there's a corresponding function in TalkBack, but it would be useful to have a funcrio like this in RN. At the moment there is no practical way to do this apart from a custom mapping function (e.g. ","->"comma"; "A"->"Capital a"), which is quite an unaffordable nightmare especially when considering multilanguage.

Discussion points

Maybe adding a function in accessibility API could be a viable way to do this, instead of adding a dedicated prop as the range of contexts when this is needed would be quite limited.
Or maybe both?

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions