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This logic doesn’t follow. iOS apps that use system controls generally have far better accessibility than web pages do, indeed accessibility is a primary reason for creating a native app.
I only have some anecdotal data on this one, and maybe I'm comparing to apps that are not using system controls. My mother struggles with any ios App because of how the zoom is implemented in the different apps. She can get by with the built in magnifier tool, but only when she already knows the app well. Personally, I recently had nerve damage in my hands, and it was very difficult for me to enter text. There were m…
Also copying a pasting working across all text is often an anti-feature for accessibility too depending on what condition you are working with. For people who have trouble with fine motor control, it’s much easier to have only the content text selectable and not the controls.
There is no one-size fits all accessibility solution.
This seems to be a good argument for an accessibility option to make all text selectable, and nothing to do with dark patterns.