VoiceOver Text Recognition Announcing Hidden Labels

I have a UIImageView as the background of a custom UIView subclass. The image itself does not contain any text. On top of this image view, I have added two UILabels.

To improve accessibility, I converted the entire view into a single accessibility element and set a proper accessibilityLabel. Additionally, I disabled accessibility for the UIImageView and the labels by setting isAccessibilityElement = false.

However, when VoiceOver's Accessibility Recognition's Text Recognition feature is enabled, VoiceOver still detects and announces the text inside the UILabels at the end after reading my custom accessibility properties. This text should not be announced.

It seems that VoiceOver treats the UILabel content as part of the UIImageView. Additionally, when using the Explore Image rotor action, the entire subview is recognized as a single image.

Is this the expected behavior? If so, is there a way to disable VoiceOver’s text recognition for this view while keeping custom accessibility intact?

class BackgroundLabelView: UIView {
    private let backgroundImageView = UIImageView()
    private let backgroundImageView2 = UIImageView()
    private let titleLabel = UILabel()
    private let subtitleLabel = UILabel()
 
    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        setupView()
    }
    
    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: coder)
        setupView()
        configureAceesibility()
    }
 
    private func configureAceesibility() {
        backgroundImageView.isAccessibilityElement = false
        backgroundImageView2.isAccessibilityElement = false
        titleLabel.isAccessibilityElement = false
        subtitleLabel.isAccessibilityElement = false
 
        isAccessibilityElement = true
        accessibilityTraits = .button
    }
 
    func configure(backgroundImage: UIImage?, title: String, subtitle: String) {
        backgroundImageView.image = backgroundImage
        titleLabel.text = title
        subtitleLabel.text = subtitle
 
        accessibilityLabel = "Holiday Offer ," + title + "," + subtitle
    }
    
    private func setupView() {
        backgroundImageView2.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
        backgroundImageView2.clipsToBounds = true
        backgroundImageView2.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        backgroundImageView2.image = UIImage(resource: .bannerfestival)
        addSubview(backgroundImageView2)
 
        backgroundImageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
        backgroundImageView.clipsToBounds = true
        backgroundImageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        addSubview(backgroundImageView)
        
        titleLabel.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 18, weight: .bold)
        titleLabel.textColor = .white
        titleLabel.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        titleLabel.numberOfLines = 0
        addSubview(titleLabel)
        
        subtitleLabel.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14, weight: .regular)
        subtitleLabel.textColor = .white.withAlphaComponent(0.8)
        subtitleLabel.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        subtitleLabel.numberOfLines = 0
        addSubview(subtitleLabel)
 
        NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
            backgroundImageView2.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: leadingAnchor),
            backgroundImageView2.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: trailingAnchor),
            backgroundImageView2.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 200),
            backgroundImageView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerYAnchor),
 
            backgroundImageView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topAnchor),
            backgroundImageView.leadingAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualTo: leadingAnchor),
            backgroundImageView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: trailingAnchor),
            backgroundImageView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: bottomAnchor),
            
            titleLabel.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: leadingAnchor, constant: 16),
            titleLabel.trailingAnchor.constraint(lessThanOrEqualTo: centerXAnchor),
            titleLabel.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerYAnchor, constant: -4),
            
            subtitleLabel.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: leadingAnchor, constant: 16),
            subtitleLabel.trailingAnchor.constraint(lessThanOrEqualTo: centerXAnchor),
            subtitleLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerYAnchor, constant: 4)
        ])
    }
    
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        backgroundImageView.layer.cornerRadius = layer.cornerRadius
    }
}