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Does anyone know how to tie together a Switch with a Text so that the switch announces the text as it’s focused.  Best i can find is using the “contentDescription” semantic property on the switch, and that should announce it, but then the text will also get announced as it’s own thing.

I’d put a `Modifier.toggleable()` on the parent like so:

```Row(
  modifier = Modifier.toggleable(
      value = checked,
      onValueChange = { checked = !checked},
      role = Role.Switch
  )
) {
  Switch(
      checked = checked,

      // null prevents the switch from being independently clickable
      onCheckedChange = null 
  )
        
  Text( ... )
}```
`Modifier.toggleable()` will do a `Modifier.semantics(mergeDescendants = true)` internally, which is the merging behavior that you want. Using `Modifier.toggleable()` instead of `Modifier.semantics()` directly ensures that the entire merged content gets the correct semantics for a switch element in addition to just merging them.

This also has the side effect (desired, IMO) of making the text clickable to toggle the switch as well.

Then I'd pass indication = null, save one `MutableInteractionSource` (or something?) and pass into both Checkbox and Text(with indication = null.)
It would only show indication for Checkbox, but also allows clicking through text.
Just like <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhwdev/covid-selftest-macro/c2db5c40805fb7262aa9c8f7da493a1867c3cb24/app/src/main/java/com/lhwdev/selfTestMacro/ui/utils/TextCheckbox.kt|https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhwdev/covid-selftest-macro/c2db5c40805fb7262aa9c8f7da493a1867c3cb24/app/src/main/java/com/lhwdev/selfTestMacro/ui/utils/TextCheckbox.kt> (but I forgot semantic ones so merge with the answer above)