wordpress-mobile / wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS

Voice Control commands are not working on editor

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[Type] Enhancement Accessibility Gutenberg
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Description

Expected behavior

The Voice Control commands related to text, such as text navigation, text selection, text editing, text deletion should work in the captions of the blocks.

Actual behavior

None of the Voice Control commands related to text, such as text navigation, text selection, text editing, text deletion work in the captions of the blocks.

Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. Enable Vocie control from the device settings
  2. Start the editor.
  3. Try to add blocks by using voice commands.
    User report: 7859553-zd-a8c
Tested on iPad, iOS 17.4.1, Jetpack iOS 24.3

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue on an iPad running iOS 17.4.1, using Voice Control in the editor's block captions. Trace how text navigation, selection, editing, and deletion commands reach the captions, then verify that each command works when adding and editing blocks.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
ios, swift
Domain
accessibility, mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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