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ACCESSIBILITY : Anchor Tags are not accessible on Android & IOS When screen reader is present.
See original GitHub issueWhen screen readers are active on my devices (IOS & Android) I cannot seem to select the anchor-tag links that are visible on the page.
Has anyone had similar issues with this? I feel Accessibility is a bit of a dark-art when it comes to React-Native.
"react-native": "~0.59.0",
"react-native-render-html": "^4.1.2",
IOS (Physical) & Android (Emulator)
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@fabien88 Thanks for pointing the testing issue! I have just fixed this bug and the test still passes. The issue your are encountering is likely a damning React Native bug (or limitation, depending on the perspective) that is covered in the FAQ here: https://meliorence.github.io/react-native-render-html/docs/faq#some-anchors-a-are-not-accessible-to-screen-readers
@jsamr I think there still a problem with anchor links embeded within span. Unit test wrongly assumes it is working because it uses a static prop instead of unit test case snippet : https://github.com/meliorence/react-native-render-html/blob/5717c9cf84254ff549153591088206434472066f/packages/render-html/src/__tests__/component.render-html-a11y.test.tsx#L26