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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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Talkback reading the appname for each activity

When i'm navigating in my app. Talkback tells me the name of the app in each new Activity. I would like to know if this is expected behaviour. If not, what can i do about it I can't find anything about this on…
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How to prevent android talkback to speak seekbar progress

I have a custom control extending SeekBar, in which I have overridden onInitializeAccessibilityNodeInfo as below: @Override public void onInitializeAccessibilityNodeInfo(AccessibilityNodeInfo info) { …
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TalkBack accessibility in WebView

I have this app with WebView for displaying HTML content. After some fairly major changes I've made, there are "issues" with TalkBack accessibility, specifically text to speech and explore by touch, on 4.4 devices only (not on 5.0). Touching a piece…
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Android accessibility talkback to say fragment's title

Is there a way to get the talkback function in Android accessibility to say something after a fragment transaction? I basically want the talkback to say the name/title of the fragment after switching. These titles are set as the titles of the action…
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Triggering Android TalkBack Text Programmatically Via A WebView

So I've been working with making an Android WebView with some text in it be more accessible to blind users and I wondered if it was possible to trigger Android TalkBack to speak some text automatically? I'm thinking a link like this:
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Android Accessibility - unable to announce TextViews as a Header or link

I have some TextViews that I would like to announce as a header or a link in Talkback mode. Currently, it just announces the text inside the TextView, but I would like it to say "Heading" afterwards, or "link" depending on the TextView. For example,…
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Android TalkBack: Is there a Listener to catch all Accessibility Events?

Background: What is the problem My app has this acronym for a word let us assume it is ABC When I use Google's voice service it reads out the letters which is great However when I use Samsung Voice (S Voice), it reads it out as 1 word which is not…
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Talkback is not getting enabled through adb shell

I've tried the command adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services com.android.talkback/com.google.android.marvin.talkback.TalkBackService to enable talkback from adb shell. It's toggling the ui button which signifies the status of…
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Android TalkBack for SeekBar values

So I have a SeekBar in my app and I'm using the TalkBack function of Android. When the SeekBar is scrolled, the device says "(android:contentDescription of view), SeekBar control, 50%". Is it possible to change it so it says the actual value (from…
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How to make TalkBack read TextView error message automatically?

I'm currently making my app accessible and I'm having problem with my EditTexts: In every EditText, the user's input is being validated at some point (e.g. after pressing a button) and if the input is invalid, I show an error using…
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How can a fragment announce itself on launch in Android Talkback?

I want Fragment to announce itself on launch in Android Talkback. Activity does announce itself when added 'android:label' on the activity tag in AndroidManifest file. How can I do that for Fragment?
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RecyclerView 's talkback function not well

I am now using RecyclerView instead of ListView to build a android app aiming at assisting blind people. The problem is when I start the talkback function, The reader read the list one by one, where I can't control the reader jump to next or the…
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Android How to get talkBack to read text when RelativeLayout is displayed

I have an activity which adds a custom view to the entire activity's view using the following code activity.getWindow().getDecorView()).addView(newView) in order to have a screen of coach marks/usertips displayed. My custom view extends from…
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Android: How to force Explore-By-Touch/Talkback to repeat the ContentDescription of the current View in AccessibilityFocus?

In my Android app, I have a View which displays an image and has an associated ContentDescription. I can enable Settings->Accessibility->Talkback, with Explore By Touch from the Talkback settings, and then single tap on the View to read the…
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How to avoid TalkBack from reading dismissed fragment

I'm developing a simple app that is structured in Activities and Fragments, one of the requirements its to make it accessible so I did all the content decriptions, navigaction, focus, etc. And it works great, except with fragments, if there is an…
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