Getting UITableViewCell from UIAccessibilityElement

Question

I'm using the KIF framework and from various APIs I can fetch the UITableViewCellAccessibilityElement for a specific UITableViewCell subclass called RDTokenCell.

(lldb) po element
[UITableViewCellAccessibilityElement - 0x148c9f30] <RDTokenCell: 0x14bf6db0;
baseClass = UITableViewCell; frame = (0 0; 320 50);
text = 'Fake Group 331'; autoresize = W;
layer = <CALayer: 0x14bf6f80>>) <NSIndexPath: 0x1596e2b0>
{length = 2, path = 0 - 0} - Recipient Fake Group 331

However, when I call element.accessibilityContainer it returns the containing UITableView and not the UITableViewCell that the element refers to.

Why is this and how can I fetch the cell rather than the table view?

Answer 1

There was an additional UIView covering the UITableViewCell until closed by pressing an X button in my UI. Apparently, the blocking UIView forced the UITableViewCell's accessibilityContainer to the parent UITableView.

I forced KIF to first close the top level UIView by instructing it to press the X button and then all the UITableViewCells became accessible.

Moral of the story, if a UIView is covering an accessibility element then the accessibility container may default to the superview of the contained element instead.