Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition

Supporting screen readers

One of the most common ways to bring accessibility to an app is to provide support for screen readers, which are used to narrate and describe elements on the screen. In this section, we will use the Xamarin.Forms AutomationProperties class to easily add screen reader support to our entry detail page:

1. First, we will need to update each of the detail elements in DetailPage.xaml to be included in the accessibility tree, making them readable by the operating systems' screen readers:

      <StackLayout Padding="10" Grid.Row="1">          <Label ... Text="{Binding Entry.Title}"               AutomationProperties.IsInAccessibleTree="true" />          <Label ... Text="{Binding Entry.Date, StringFormat='{0:M}'}"  AutomationProperties.IsInAccessibleTree="true" ...