Accessibility mode should work on iOS

[devinprater]

First and foremost consider this:

• Only RetroArch bugs should be filed here. Not core bugs or game bugs
• This is not a forum or a help section, this is strictly developer oriented

Description

When using Retroarch for iOS (released on the App Store on May 15, 2024), accessibility mode, where the menu items are read aloud, does not work.

Expected behavior

When setting accessibility-mode to "true" in the retroarch.cfg, or when launching Retroarch with VoiceOver active, Retroarch should say "Retroarch accessibility on", and then speak what the person moves to using a gamepad, or with their finger (direct touch).

Actual behavior

Retroarch says nothing, and VoiceOver detects nothing on the screen.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Turn on VoiceOver.
2. Open Retroarch.
3. Move your finger around the screen, or press the D-Pad buttons on a gamepad.

Bisect Results

This always happened on Retroarch for iOS.

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

I cannot get this info since I cannot use the app.

Environment information

• OS: iOS 17.5

[devinprater]

VoiceOver can be checked to see if it's on. This can be used to automatically turn on accessibility mode. Accessibility mode speech output can then be posted as an accessibility notification. Alternatively, the AV Speech synthesizer can be used to read output, a bit like on MacOS.

[warmenhoven]

Yeah on macOS it invokes say directly rather than call the APIs. It's on my list to fix.