Help with widgets

By Wittie, 27 October, 2022

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello all, I am a voiceover user and I hear a lot of sighted people talking about widgets on their lock screen. I was wondering, first of all, are they accessible with voiceover, I don’t want to add a widget on my phone and potentially screw up my phone. And secondly, what exactly is the point of them if you are a voiceover user?

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By MuseumShuffle on Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 17:34

The answer for if they are accessible is "it depends". I made sure to code and test the widgets in my apps for VoiceOver support but that's up to the individual developer(s).

This video is two years old but shows how to add them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49NAAOQyRA

If certain widgets aren't showing up I've found that sometimes powering the phone off/on helps.