Clickable property requires "button" to be set as accessibilityRole

Description

When a component has an onPress property, it should be clickable by TalkBack even if it is not set to be a button. This was discovered here.

This may require native changes on Android. It may also require an API change. From this comment, it is common on iOS for anything clickable to be called a “button” according to accessibility. This is not true on Android, when only things that look and feel like buttons should be labeled a button.

React Native version:

0.63

Steps To Reproduce

<Text onPress={() => {console.log("hello!")}} />

<Text accessibilityRole="button" onPress={() => {console.log("hello!")}} />

NOTE: More triage is needed to verify what happens on Android/iOS with these two cases.

Expected Results

Desired behavior on Android - Text node is clickable even if accessibilityRole is not “button” Desired behavior on iOS - ?

[chrisglein]

This may require native changes on Android. It may also require an API change.

NOTE: More triage is needed to verify what happens on Android/iOS with these two cases.

There’s still some ambiguity here. I’m not sure what the right solution would be based on what you’ve said here. Can you do some background research and turn this into a more concrete proposal?

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 7 days with no activity.