How to mimic UITableView's UITableViewStylePlain section header style

Question

My application uses abbreviations in UITableView section header titles that are hard for VoiceOver to pronounce. As I need to make these titles pronounceable by VoiceOver, I need to give the section header title a accessibilityLabel.

It seems that the only way to do this is to draw a custom section header cell. I would like to mimic the standard Apple UIKit provided style for these custom section headers but I am uncertain on how to emulate Apple's detailed look of this element.

What is the best approach to mimic the UITableViewStylePlain section header style?

Update: I am well aware how to create a custom header cell. What I am looking for is a technique to mimic exactly the look of the header cell style as provided by Apple for the plain UITableView section header cells.

Answer 1

If anyone is still interested, I've got it looking pretty damn close with the following code (using Mark Adams images from the comment above, but I resized them slightly as my app also has landscape mode):

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tbl viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    UIView* sectionHead = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, tbl.bounds.size.width, 18)];
    sectionHead.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0];
    sectionHead.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    sectionHead.tag = section;

    UIImageView *headerImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"PlainTableViewSectionHeader.png"]];
    headerImage.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;

    [sectionHead addSubview:headerImage];
    [headerImage release];

    UILabel *sectionText = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 2, tbl.bounds.size.width - 10, 18)];
    sectionText.text = text;
    sectionText.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    sectionText.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    sectionText.shadowColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
    sectionText.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0,1);
    sectionText.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18];

    [sectionHead addSubview:sectionText];
    [sectionText release];

    return [sectionHead autorelease];
}