Change the description of an object on text-to-speech

Question

I'm currently working on providing accessibility to an app and I wanted to know if there's a way to change the description of a specific textField when you're marking/selecting it.

Say you have myNumericInput: UITextField! which you set to NumberPad. When voice over is activated and you tap on it, it will select it and say "text field". Is there a way to override this and have it say, for example, "numeric field"?

I know this is just the voice over app describing the object itself (textField), but maybe the description is confusing for the user, and I wanted to check if this can be better specified somehow.

Answer 1

You could set the value of accessibilityHint to your text field to better describe what it does.

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