iOS accessibility - How do you set the accessibility label for the title of a UINavigationBar?

Question

Apple's voice over mispronounces the title of one of my views, which is inside a UINavigation Controller.

In other parts of the app I have added a custom accessibility label to help it pronounce the company name correctly. How can I set the accessibility label of a UINavigationBar?

Answer 1

This works in iOS 8.2. In viewDidLoad:

self.navigationItem.accessibilityLabel = @"My accessible label";

When a navigation controller transitions to the view controller, the accessibilityLabel is read instead of the view controller title.

Answer 2

I couldn't add an accessibility label, but I found a workaround:

I replace the navigationItem's title View with a UILabel that has accessibility set up.

UILabel *titleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
titleLabel.text = @"myTitle";
[titleLabel setAccessibilityLabel:@"myCustomAccessiblityLabel"];
[titleLabel setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.0]];
[titleLabel setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[titleLabel setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[titleLabel sizeToFit];
self.navigationItem.titleView = titleLabel;

I'm not sure why setting the accessibility label doesn't work, but the above code works for my needs.