Refine accessibility for custom controls

A Podkey summary of Refine accessibility for custom controls, from WWDC 2026.Today’s thread is accessibility, but in a very practical, hands-on way: how custom controls actually become usable with VoiceOver and other assistive tools. The big idea is pretty simple once you hear it. If a control has a purpose, a current value, some available actions, and clear feedback, that needs to be exposed just as clearly to non-visual users as it is to sighted users. And once you get into sliders, coffee dispensers, equalizer pads, and gesture-heavy controls, you can really see where good accessibility work stops being a checklist and starts being product design.The four things every control has to communicateWhat a built-in slider gets rightThe coffee dispenser before and afterWhen you need finer controlHandling controls that move in two dimensionsDirect touch for gesture-heavy controlsThis podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm