Add support for Custom Rotors in React Native

[meatnordrink]

Introduction

iOS offers Custom Rotors and Custom Actions accessibility tools. These tools offer the ability to significantly enhance the accessible experience.

Lack of access to these tools via React Native means that React Native apps must lag behind native apps in accessibility.

Details

• One objection to this might be that these APIs aren't available for Android, so it's another platform-specific capability. One answer to this is that there may be Android-specific capabilities that could be added; the other is that 71% of screen-reader users use iOS on their mobile devices, so supporting the iOS a11y APIs is more impactful.

Good introductions for those not familiar with Custom Rotors and Custom Actions:

• Custom Rotors
• Custom Actions

Discussion points

• How much work would this be?

[kastwey]

It would be awesome!!! I'm blind, and I recently started developing with React Native. I'm missing this feature to add some actions to the rotor for my application. I can add actions, but it's not enough. Hopefully they implement this feature! I was thinking about adding it my self by submitting a pr, but my Swift or Objective-C knowledge is nonexistent :)

[PabloRodriguezMontalvo]

Accessibility first! ♥️

[okwasniewski]

Hey! Just checked it and Custom Actions are already supported: https://reactnative.dev/docs/next/view#accessibilityactions

However, custom rotor support is missing.

[kastwey]

Yeah, exactly, I'm using the actions, but I would like to add more actions to the rotor itself :)