Nested elements accessibility for automated testing

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simpledew OP

Created Nov ’21

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Hi,

My team is using Appium as a tool for automated testing.

Using accessibilityIdentifiers was a simple way for app testing before accessibility issues.

The problem is that you can't have the parent view and its children accessible. If a parent view is accessible, its children won't be seen by VoiceOver and conversely.

And if an element looses accessibility, it can not be seen by Appium.

So now we have bigger elements (like cell) that needs to be accessibility element to provide short descriptive information, meaning all nested buttons and etc. looses ability to be accessibility elements and cannot be found by QA.

Maybe anyone has a good workaround?

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rad_val OP

Mar ’23

@simpledew Have you ever managed to get to the bottom of this? I'm having the same problem, but when UI testing: the children seem to be using the parent's identifier, and ignoring theirs.