Automattic / Automattic/pocket-casts-ios

Accessibity: Voice Over will not select the slider for episode postion

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Description

### Expected behavior
I would expect to be able to use all the features of our play with Voice Over, including the slider that selects where playback happens in an episode.

### Actual behavior

It can't be selected

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7907292/220155656-35eba105-32ea-4127-9cd6-da20ee032770.MP4

### Steps to reproduce the behavior
1. Enable Voice Over
2. Open Pocket Casts Player
3. Try to select the slider in the player to skip ahead or behind

##### Tested on iPhone SE , iOS 16.3, Pocket Casts 7.32
User reported zen-5973503

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue with VoiceOver on an iPhone SE running iOS 16.3 and Pocket Casts 7.32, then inspect the player’s episode-position slider and its accessibility behavior. Done means VoiceOver can select the slider and use it to skip forward or backward during playback.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
accessibility, mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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