Does anyone have any experience adding accessibility “links” to compose annotated strings? When you...

# compose

[Lucas Kivi]

Does anyone have any experience adding accessibility “links” to compose annotated strings? When you add clickable segments to a SpannableString you get this behavior in XML.

[Lucas Kivi]

The best I have been able to do so far is adding custom actions!

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/AnnotatedString.Builder#addUrlAnnotation(androidx.compose.ui.text.UrlAnnotation,kotlin.Int,kotlin.Int)

[Lucas Kivi]

Thanks for the response! 👀

[Lucas Kivi]

This code yielded no such links, unfortunately

val string = buildAnnotatedString {
    append("link: Jetpack Compose")
    // attach a string annotation that stores a URL to the text "Jetpack Compose".
    addStringAnnotation(
        tag = "URL",
        annotation = "<https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose>",
        start = 6,
        end = 21
    )
}

ClickableText(
    text = string,
) {}

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Yep addStringAnnotation won’t do it, gotta use addUrlAnnotation

[Lucas Kivi]

👀

[Lucas Kivi]

Very, very nice!!

[Lucas Kivi]

Thank you so much! I do have a follow up question, what if I wanted to perform intra-app navigation in one of these links 🤔 I currently have it rigged up in a sort of haphazard way.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Unfortunately it only supports urls right now, so you’d have to do that using a url handler somehow.

[Lucas Kivi]

Ok, thank you for the update. I have something working at the moment via actions. However, I will consider swapping to the url handler to support the accessibility Links feature for consistency.