Questions tagged [switchcontrol]

Switch Control provides switch access to mobility impaired users, built into Apple's Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. It scans an application’s user interface and helps users navigate through the application’s controls as well as perform clicks and gestures at arbitrary locations.

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Return to main menu on Long press of a Switch Access button

I am creating a game specifically designed to be played using Switch access. The game builds a grid of buttons dynamically based on the level to mimic the grid layout of an iPad's icons. With the nature of switch access I cannot have a back button…
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.NET MAUI: Change off color of switch

is there an opportunity to change the off color of a switch control? I can change ThumbColor or OnColor, but unfortunately not OffColor. When switch is not toggled, you can't see the complete switch control very good: Thank you!
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Keyboard Traversal vs Accessibility Switch Control

Specifically, I am thinking in terms of a Flutter application but I believe this questions applies to any accessibility switch control (there's an android and MacOS version as well) capable device and any keyboard based traversal device (web and…
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How to identify whether the user is in switch control mode of IOS UIAccessibility

We have a nice functionality in IOS to know whether UIAccessibility Voice over is active. The function to use is UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning(). I would like to know whether we have a similar functionality for UIAccessibility switch control. I…
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Switch Control inside Settings->Genral->Accessibility iOS 7

I am working with a application which has a blue tooth Switch attached to it. With the new iOS 7 Switch Control API I need to check if the iOS 7 Switch Control API is On or not. Is there any API provided to check if the Switch Control is on in the…
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Trigger camera shutter on iPhone from Macbook

I'm writing a script on my macbook to trigger the camera shutter on my iPhone. I'm struggling to understand how to do this programmatically. I've tried: Using macbook as bluetooth keyboard (don't know how to simulate a volume press) Using "Switch…
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What bluetooth services does a switch need to be detected by apple switch control

What services does a bluetooth enabled device need to have to be recognised by and used with apple switch control? We are creating a bluetooth enabled devices (4.0) and we need to know how to get the devices detected by apple's switch control for…
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iOS7 Safari with Switch Control access

I'm trying to make book reading on tarheelreader.org easier on the iPad using the new iOS7 "Switch Control" accessibility feature. I've got a bluetooth switch configured to do "Move to Next Item" and "Select Item". With these two switches I can move…
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Xamarin forms Switch Toggled event fires automatically whenever navigate to that page

I am using Xamarin forms switch inside collection view like the below.
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Can you have a background "app" process bluetooth input, and act as a switch-control input device?

We want to use eye blinks as input for switch control in iOS. We have a bluetooth device that broadcasts raw EEG over bluetooth, and it is easy to process those signals to determine when the wearer has blinked. But that processing does not happen on…
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update UIViewController in Real Time from Popover Viewcontroller in Swift 4

right now i'm experimenting with SceneKit DebugOptions. i'm trying to update/ show Scenekits Debug Options in real time, using switch controllers from a Popover ViewController. i've tried many things, like UserDefaults, Delegation and Protocols, but…
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How to programmatically group items when using switch control of IOS?

When using the Switch Control accessibility feature of iOS, you can turn on "Group Items" to improve the scanning speed. But does anyone know, how the system decides which controls should be grouped together and which should not? I have tried…
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Let Switch Control users trigger an action with a switch press

I have a switch control device "Ablenet (BLUE 2)" and I would like to control my application using the switch device. My application is a paged (horizondal pages) news reader application and I would like the switch device to control the news pages…
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