[accessibility] Not possible to determine with VoiceOver if a message is a reply

[tuukkao]

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Bug description

While reading messages with VoiceOver it is not possible to tell if a message is in reply to another message. The message gets read out as if it was a regular message, i.e. not a reply. For this reason it is also impossible to know the message this one was replied to. These bugs make this feature essentially unusable for VoiceOver users.

Steps to reproduce

• Open a conversation, either with another user or a group (this applies to both)
• Reply to a message marking it as such (i.e. using the reply action - I'm a blind Signal user and don't know exactly how this works without VoiceOver, so please forgive me being a bit vague here)
• Turn on voiceOver and navigate to the message you just sent either by swiping left and right or exploring by touch.

Actual result: VoiceOver announces the message just as if it was a regular non-reply message, i.e. [your name] sent: [your message]. No information about this message being a reply gets announced.

Expected result: VoiceOver should announce this message to be a reply, something like this: [your name] replied: [your message]. Additionally there should be a mechanism for the user to know which message this one refers to. This could be, for example, a rotor action for jumping to the message in question. I strongly discourage announcing the original message before the reply, since it significantly increases the time to know the content of the actual reply.

Screenshots

Not applicable.

Device info

Device: iPhone SE 2020

iOS version: 18.1

Signal version: 7.34

Link to debug log

I believe this is not applicable, but I'm happy to provide one if needed.