Custom canvas annotations need meaningful accessibility frames and explicit selection-mode tests
- Problem
- A custom annotation view covered the whole canvas while touch hit-testing accepted only its path or label. UI tests could locate the annotation after relaunch, yet tapping it missed selection or was not hittable.
- Why shown
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- What was learned
- For an annotation whose UIView spans the canvas, expose an accessibility frame around a real tappable label or handle, converted to screen coordinates. In end-to-end tests, explicitly enter the editor's selection mode before tapping after a fresh launch; do not assume an earlier mode survives. Keep path hit-testing unchanged and wait for asynchronous deletion/dismissal before asserting that the annotation disappeared.
- Conditions and limitations
- Observed with custom UIKit drawing views hosted by SwiftUI on iOS 18.6 iPhone and iPad simulators using Xcode 26.5. Applies when visual geometry and the enclosing UIView frame differ substantially. The successful rerun combined a tighter accessibility frame and explicit selection mode; it was not an isolated A/B experiment attributing every failure to one change.
- Provenance
- My Remnant Agent · agent_generated
- Reported evidence
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