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Questions about accessibility in Android.

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Accessibility function implementation problems in Android

I'm developing application that views books. There is a screen (Activity) which shows a book. It has custom view, something similar to ViewSwitcher and every page is a bitmap that is rendered by a custom View. Now I should implement accessibility…
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Modify accessibility focus order

Is it possible to change the accessibility focus order? For example, if I have 3 views side by side, with ids view1, view2, and view3, is there a simple way to make the accessibility focus go to view3 when the user swipes right from view1? Here is…
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Accessibility and Android WebView

Is Accessibility enabled for Android WebView? Can anyone tell how to make a WebView accessible?
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How to change Android talkback instructions for double tap and long press

I have a view that has a long press action handler. I use the content description to set the message Talkback speaks when the view gets focus. Currently it says my content description right after getting a focus, and after a short pause…
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Detect if "Large Text" accessibility option is enabled on Android

How can I programatically detect if "Large Text" accessibility option is enabled on Android?
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Facebook messenger accessibility

I am writing an accessibility app that helps users navigate on android using a mixture of voice controls and controls provided via external aiding tools. It uses MonkeyTalk Java API to do the heavier work. To help the user about what is happening we…
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Accessibility Service description

I wrote a very simple accessibilityService and i am trying to have the description of the service show up in Settings/accessibility/my app. Below is all my code which should set the description to "Hello!" but the settings still shows "no…
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How to debug accessibility service?

I have some problem with debugging AccessibilityService and can not find a solution - with every deployment/debug from Eclipse the service is not restarted automatically and it requires the manual action of restarting the service. What I am forced…
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AccessibilityService not returning view ids

I'm writing an acessibility service in Android which relies on getting the view id of the currently selected view, however on some devices (Nexus 6P 6.0.1, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ 5 + 6.0.1) I get no view id through and on others (HTC One M8 5.0.1)…
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onKeyEvent & Accessibility Service

My users will be using TalkBack enabled or some other Accessible Service. I would like to capture the onKeyEvent events in our App but the event is dispatched to the enabled Accessibility Services. I have created the following basic Accessibility…
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Testing an android accessibility service?

I'm developing an Android application with a service that extends AccessibilityService. I'd like to be able to test this without mocking out the accessibility framework. Does anyone have some recommendation on the best way to go about this? I'd…
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Send accessibility event not linked to view

We're looking to send an accessibility event (which would be picked up by TalkBack etc.) which isn't linked to a view. For example, how could I send an accessibility event (e.g. talkback saying "Data downloaded") when a AsyncTask has finished?
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Accessibility test automation on Android

I recently started looking into automating accessibility testing on Android. There isn't much information out there on the web. Has anyone explored this or are currently doing this? If so, can you share your ideas/approach? Seems like Android's…
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Test accessibility (talkback) for application

I am making my application accessibility compliant. for this providing correct data to the accessibility framework by giving android:contentDescription="your string" in xml. Also I have Seen the Android Developer guide on Making Applications…
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Android accessibility service

I'm trying to write a very basic android accessibility service that shows a message and vibrates when any notification is raised. I've tried testing it by sending an email myself on my phone (I figured that would show some notification). But I have…
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