I'm testing Full Keyboard Access in my app and on the iPhone apps in my iPhone 12 mini with OS 17. My work will directly impact how much accessibility review is done on our iOS app which has millions of unique views a month.
In several Apple apps I cannot seem to scroll down through the screen when the main View has focus.
For example,
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the Home app does not scroll with arrow keys nor Ctrl+tab through any of the 6 main content groups on the Discover screen. it almost appears it's a single static image; the "Getting Started" button is not able to be activated. I can activate sections further down when I enable gestures, but cannot pinpoint a specific location.
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The Stocks app includes Top Stories from the Apple News app; in either app I can select a story, which brings up the article on full screen, but then I cannot use the arrow keys or Ctrl+tab to read the article or interact with inline links. Ctrl + tab selects the button features like to watch an embedded video or live coverage, then jumps down to the end of the article to focus on Related stories, ignoring all the links in between.
I am able to somewhat move through the article text with keyboard gestures, but many of these articles have embedded links or content after the article (before "Related Stories"
I work in digital accessibility and need to be able to tell my teams what is expected behavior and where to see examples of this. If Apple can't demonstrate Full Keyboard Access in its own apps this is a problem.
Our own app has some of these issues but I am unsure how to recommend a solution when the scrollview seems to not work in native iOS apps by Apple.
