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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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Autofocus not working on chrome in angular 10

I am trying to autofocus on to login id after incorrect login id and password message is displayed and announced on VOICE OVER/talk back. It should shift focus to login id text field. to make sure my application ADA and 508 Compliance.
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Android accessibility restrict talkback to reading only the visible text

I have a TextView with maxLines="1" and a long string of text set to it. ellipsize="end" truncates the text after 1 line, but the talkback, goes on the read the entire text which is not visible in the TextView.
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Android accessibility: how to change the search bar readed string

as I wrote in the title, the Android Talkback actually reads the hint text of my search bars, but I need to change that behavior to read a custom string (different from the hint). I tried to set the contentDescription but it didn't work (the…
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How do I cause vertical two-finger swipe behavior to cause a horizontal slider to move left or right?

I have a horizontal slider in my app, and I want to make it so that if you have the slider selected, you can do the two-fingered swipe up or down gesture from anywhere on the screen (The scroll up or down gesture) to move the slider left or right. I…
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Possible to make accessibility announcement on Android independent of UI control?

On Xamarin iOS, it is possible to make a VoiceOver announcement for example when a background operation has completed, see here. This announcement is not dependent on the appearance of any UI control. On Xamarin Android on the other hand, the…
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Is there a way to force talkback to announce usage hints when a video is playing?

I am developing a video player android-app. When video is paused, usage hints like "double tap to activate button" are announced properly but when video is playing these hints are not announced by talkback. For example: Announcement for seek forward…
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How to ignore some UI elements as seperators or ImageViews for Talkback?

I tried Talkback accessibility service on my app. When I navigate through my app I have: some line seperators, where Talkback reacts sensitive and talks something on that seperator which does not make any sense. images beneath its explanation…
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How to change talkback instructions for double tap to activate for RemoteView used in widgets?

I am using a custom layout for RemoteView in widget. In talkback , it is currently speaking "double tap to activate" on imageview. But i want to replace the text with "double tap to open app". How can i get the above behavior in widgets?
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voiceover in ios and talkback in android not able to access the input element

voiceover in ios and talkback in android not able to access the input element while double clicking the button. on using tabindex="0" for input element it become accessible but still not accessible with double click.Also is there a way to test…
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View is not selectable after it is made VISIBLE with a delayed transition when Talkback is enabled in Android

When a view is made VISIBLE a certain way, Talkback can no longer select / click / focus on that view, see: https://github.com/kai-vala/DemoForAccessibilityBugs/blob/master/images/animation.gif (Not enough rep to embed images) Full example app is…
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is it possible to focus trap in modal popup when using talkback or voiceover?

i have page with iframe in the iframe when i click the button, popup will appear when talback or voiceover is enabled, is it possible to focus trap only in the popup ? so is it possible to achieve that i will be not able to move outside of the popup…
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SwitchAccess compatible virtual View nodes' deep tree hierarchy

I am trying to create an accessible custom View in Android. The View consists of a virtual nodes' tree hierarchy which can be multi-level deep in my case. The tree is not necessarily binary: each node on each level may have as many children as the…
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Android RecyclerView content description

Is it possible to set contentDescription or some similar attribute for the whole RecyclerView so that a screen reader app like TalkBack would read this contentDescription when the list is first reached and only then proceed to list items?
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TalkBack announces "Double tap and hold to long press" on WebView

Background: When focused on a WebView control, TalkBack announces something to the effect of "Bing. WebView. Double tap and hold to long press" (note that focus is on the WebView control itself, not the content within the webview). However, as best…
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Exclude RecyclerView AdapterItem from being grouped as in the list by accessibility readers

I have a screen which displays search results. However there is always one item that is at the end of the list, which is not a search result, but a disclaimer. When TalkBack is on, it counts this disclaimer as part of the list, which is…
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