Third party screen reader for iOS

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Created Sep ’23

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Good morning, my company needs to develop a screen reader (like VoiceOver more-or-less) with added custom features for blind people. I wanted to know if there's any possibility to implement a third-party screen reader on iOS, or if someone could suggest any workaround for it.

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Hvistar OP

Feb ’24

In some more detail:

We know that using accessibility services features described at

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/accessibility_for_uikit

One can develop an application more accessible to users who are blind or have low vision.
We have experience in developing iOS apps using UIKIt and SwiftUI
We are developing screen reader applications since 2014, and we have experience in developing screen reader-like applications for Android, similar to Talkback.
We want to experiment with doing the same for iOS eventually replicating some of the VoiceOver features

Therefore the more detailed question for us is:

Is there any API for programmatically accessing accessibility features exposed by a running third party iOS application compliant with UIAccessibility specifications? For instance, Whatsapp is the foreground running application, I want to access its UI Element features (namely the UI accessibility features). Is it possible? If yes, which API or SDK can I use?

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