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TalkBack is an Android Accessibility Service that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices more easily.

TalkBack is, according to its website, an Android Accessibility Service that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices more easily.

This application add spoken, audible, and vibration feedback to your device. It is a system application that was pre-installed on most device and is updated when the accessibility service is improved.

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Android - Set TalkBack accessibility focus to a specific view

When TalkBack is enabled, is there any way to set the accessibility focus manual to a specific view? For instance, when my Activity is started I want TalkBack to automatically focus on a certain Button (yellow frame around the view) and read its…
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Testing Accessibility on Emulated Device (Marshmallow)

I want to test the accessibility of my app in emulator (particularly Talkback) but it seems that the option is missing in emulator. Here is the screen shot from the emulator in accessibility settings: There are two options "ClockBack" and…
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How to know if Android TalkBack is active?

I'm developing an application that uses TalkBack to guide people through it. However, in those situations I want to have some subtile differences in the layout of the application so navigation is easier and also have extra voice outputs (with…
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How to create accessible focus groups in ConstraintLayout?

Imagine you have a LinearLayout inside a RelativeLayout that contains 3 TextViews with artist, song and album:
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Droid Accessibility - Disable TalkBack for specific TextView

I can not find an answer to what should be a very simple task. Can someone explain to me the best way to turn off accessibility (talkback) for an individual element in android? I have a TextView that I programmatically set the contentDescription to…
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How to change Text's contentDescription on JetpackCompose

How can I change the default Text content description to be read on TalkBack on Jetpack Compose to any text that I want ?
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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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Move accessibility focus programmatically

Is it possible to move the accessibility focus (VoiceOver for iOS and Talkback for Android) to a defined widget when pressing a button? I've tried searching in the Semantics package but I can't find a way to obtain this. It would be enough also to…
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String is read as number rather than reading it digit by digit when talk back is on in android

I have a string "9039662543", and when talk back is on, this string is read as "nine million...." in 4.3 android devices, above 4.3 devices its working fine, by reading "nine zero three...". What should I do to fix this?
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What is the difference between Android focusable and importantForAccessibility when using TalkBack?

I have noticed that in many situations android:importantForAccessibility="yes" can be replaced by android:focusable="true" and work exactly the same with TalkBack. When should android:importantForAccessibility="yes" be used instead of using…
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Setting content description for option menu android Talkback

I am implementing "Read Aloud" or "Talkback" for an app. Everything is working with contentDescription text, but with option menu, I found nothing related to contentDescription, I want system read "Menu "+ item's name. EX: My menu has 2 items:…
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Android TalkBack and fragment stack

For an application that I work on, I need to implement accessibility. Everything works fine except for one screen where I have to fragments added to my activity. Basically, the fragment that is above is a dial keyboard to enter a passcode. This…
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how to add contentDesctiption to InfoWindow or marker in Android GoogleMaps V2 for TalkBack

I'm working on native Android app which implements the latest GoogleMap API (V2), and I need to make it accessibility complaint (as much as I can). I can add contentDescription attribute to the mapView and it works fine - TalkBack recognizes…
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Android - prevent TalkBack from announcing TextView title aloud

I am developing an accessible android application where people would be using Explore by Touch and TalkBack accessibility services to use my application. This is my Android XML code:
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Android accessibility: Talkback says 'out of list' in addition to announcing an ImageView's content description

I have an ImageView in the layout with content description = 'Close'. When Talkback is turned on, it says "Close button, out of list". Why does Talkback say 'out of list' in addition and how can I avoid it? P.S. there is also a RecyclerView in the…
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