---
title: accessibilityElement
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilityelement
---

# accessibilityElement

A Boolean value that determines whether the accessibility element participates in the accessibility hierarchy.

## Declaration

```occ
@property (getter=isAccessibilityElement) BOOL accessibilityElement;
```

## Discussion

Discussion Use this property to expose this object to accessibility clients as a functional interface element. For example, when you place a button in a window, the system typically creates a button cell inside a button control inside a container view inside a window. Users, however, don’t care about the view hierarchy details. They should only be told that there’s a button in a window. If this property is set to false, accessibility clients ignore this element. By default, NSView and its subclasses set this value to false; however, if your NSView subclass adopts one of the accessibility protocols, the system changes the default value to true.

## See Also

### Related Documentation

- [unignoredDescendant(of:)](appkit/nsaccessibility-swift.struct/unignoreddescendant(of:).md)
- [unignoredAncestor(of:)](appkit/nsaccessibility-swift.struct/unignoredancestor(of:).md)
- [unignoredChildrenForOnlyChild(from:)](appkit/nsaccessibility-swift.struct/unignoredchildrenforonlychild(from:).md)
- [unignoredChildren(from:)](appkit/nsaccessibility-swift.struct/unignoredchildren(from:).md)

### Configuring accessibility

- [isAccessibilitySelectorAllowed(_:)](appkit/nsaccessibilityprotocol/isaccessibilityselectorallowed(_:).md)
- [accessibilityEnabled](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilityenabled.md)
- [accessibilityFrame](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilityframe.md)
- [accessibilityHelp](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilityhelp.md)
- [accessibilityLabel](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilitylabel.md)
- [accessibilityTitle](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilitytitle.md)
- [accessibilityValue](appkit/nsaccessibility-c.protocol/accessibilityvalue.md)