Cannot exclude compassView from VoiceOver (accessibility) when map is not north

[krupupakku]

MapLibre iOS Version

6.8.0

iOS Version

18.0

Device

iPhone 13

What happened?

Hey! as I'm not using the compassView I need to exclude it from being read from the iOS accessibility VoiceOver but I noticed even if I'm setting

        map.compassView.isAccessibilityElement = false
        map.compassView.accessibilityElementsHidden = true

is the map is not facing north, it's being read by screen reader. It's also visible in accessibility list elements (two fingers, three taps on screen).
If the map is not rotated there's no problem, screen reader is ignoring the compass view

extra info: rendering or hiding compass view is not changing things.

Some screens:

/	Map	List
Not North
North

Steps to reproduce

• just show a simple map,
• try disable compassView from accessibility (I'm doing it in updateUIView)
• rotate the map to not face north

Relevant log output

Additional context

No response

[louwers]

Thanks for the report. I am not super aware how Voice Over works.

We have a developing guide if you want to try looking into this yourself.

maplibre-native/platform/ios/src/MLNCompassButton.mm

Lines 45 to 47 in 8b32c9a

	self.accessibilityTraits = UIAccessibilityTraitButton;
	self.accessibilityLabel = NSLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue(@"COMPASS_A11Y_LABEL", nil, nil, @"Compass", @"Accessibility label");
	self.accessibilityHint = NSLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue(@"COMPASS_A11Y_HINT", nil, nil, @"Rotates the map to face due north", @"Accessibility hint");

MLNCompassDirectionFormatter seems to be generating that message you see.