Accessibility

For now, accessibility support is experimental with the library. Here's a video of what we could achieve.

Since we bypass the native focus, and the screen readers rely on the native elements, it's a difficult topic.

The SpatialNavigatioNFocusableView that you can use integrate basic accessibility props relevant to make the library work with TalkBack (Android only).

The two main caveats are :

• Your elements will still be focusable, but the user will need to press enter to grab focus on an element, which is not standard at all.
• You might need to add the props accessible on SpatialNavigationFocusableView children. For example, focusable images won't work without it. You can check it out in the example, in the Program.tsx component.

We could not find a way to properly intercept the accessibility focus event, even with a React Native patch.

Help is welcome 🙂