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Accessibility identifiers stopped finding elements used for UI testing

I've set up accessibility identifiers in the storyboard. These were working. However, I enabled accessibility on more views and now none of the elements can be found using the accessibility identifiers.

But, I can still find elements using the code generated by the record function.

Here's how I'm finding the elements: 

XCUIApplication().buttons["loginButton"] //loginButton is the accessibility identifier

Here's how that same button is found using the recorder: 

XCUIApplication().children(matching: .window).element(boundBy: 0).children(matching: 
.other).element.children(matching: .other).element.children(matching: 
.other).element.children(matching: .other).element.tap()

The error that I'm getting is: 

No matches found for *typeOfElement*

I haven't been able to find an applicable solution online so far.

My question a nutshell: Why can't I get a reference to elements using the accessibility identifiers.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • The answer to this is that when you make a view accessible you also make all of its subviews inaccessible. Therefore, because I made the superview(s) of the views that I was accessing accessible I could no longer access those subviews. This means that to make the subviews accessible again I had to the disable the superview's accessibility property.