Hey, y’all! I am curious to know more about why a `Text` that is fed an `AnnotatedString` with a `L...

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[Lucas Kivi]

Hey, y’all!

I am curious to know more about why a Text that is fed an AnnotatedString with a LinkAnnotation is focused first on a given screen?

Code and media in the 🧵

[Lucas Kivi]

Scaffold(
    topBar = {
        TopAppBar(title = { Text("Talkback Testing") })
    },
    ...
) { innerPadding ->
    Column(...) {
        Text("First normal text element")

        Text(
            buildAnnotatedString {
                append("If I could click something, I would click ")
                val link =
                    LinkAnnotation.Clickable(
                        "special_tag",
                        TextLinkStyles(SpanStyle(color = Color.Blue))
                    ) {
                        println("Clickable link clicked")
                    }
                withLink(link) { append("here") }
                append(".")
            }
        )

        Text("Second normal text element")
    }
}

This code yields this behavior:

annotatedStringTalkBackOrdering.mp4

[Lucas Kivi]

Notice how Talkback focus doesn’t start at the top bar, it starts at the AnnotatedString filled Text and then goes to the top bar.

This does seem a bit odd, but I am not an accessibility user, so I am curious if this is intended behavior and why? Otherwise I will submit an issue and try and devise a work around ❤️

[dorche]

If you replace the Scaffold with a Column, does that impact the behaviour?

[Lucas Kivi]

It does not.

[Lucas Kivi]

sad panda

[Lucas Kivi]

Issue created.