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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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Can I have Talkback and my custom Accessibility Service enabled simultaneously?

I am developing an Accessibility app in Android Studio, Java. I enable Talkback programmatically as an accessibility service: public class TalkBackToggler { //In the terminal run the command line: // adb shell pm grant com.MyApp…
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Android Accessibility Talkback - handle onClick on hyperlink of TextView

We have a text view which supports HTML tags. In this text view, the text will come in the form of HTML and we are able to populate it perfectly. The text may contain, some hyperlinks. These hyperlinks are in regular tags. The catch here…
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How to update ImageView contentDescription with Glide in a Widget

I have an Android widget for the home screen, whose layout is basically an ImageView:
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Marker click not detected with Talkback ON - Android SDK v8.6.1

Android not detecting a click on the marker with accessibility Talkback ON in SDK version 8.6.1. It is detecting click for entire mapview, info element but not markers.
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Google Talkback Building in Android Studio

I have come across https://github.com/google/talkback and I really like the idea of releasing the code to allow contributions. However, when I tried building this project, I ran into errors on Android Studio. I tried Import a project and selecting…
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Android Accessibility Disabled Button Hint

I have a button that is disabled when certain requirements are not met, like most applications. When using TalkBack I get the output "[Button Text], Button, Disabled" What I want to achieve is "[Button Text], Button, Disabled, [hint as to why]"
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Talkback doesn't announce 'press select to activate' for a Button

I want to give following sequence of Talkback events when user navigates to a DialogFragment, 1) On navigating to DialogFragment, initial focus should be on positive Button 2) title+description of the dialog should get announced without focusing…
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How to override Accessibility class name

I want to prevent Talkback from announcing class name for Button view. To do so I wrote following logic but it doesn't work fun setAccessibilityDelegate(view: Button?) { view?.setAccessibilityDelegate(object : View.AccessibilityDelegate() { …
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a11y polymer button doesn´t provide auditive feedback of button state

I have the following polymer element, that inherits the "paper-behaviors/paper-button-behavior" but doesn´t provide any kind of auditive feedback when the user clicks the button. it just reads the text of the button, but no information about if it…
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Is it possible to read-group the Title and the subtile of a Toolbar for accessibility?

I would like to group ActionBar's Title and subtile when TalkBack is activated while keeping the order the same: backButton next (title + SubTitle) next menuItems The solutions/workaround I thought about but didn't work for me: Create two TextView…
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In Samsung galaxy s9 while Accessibility "screen reader" is on and its not functioning properly?

The accessibility Screen reader is not working properly in Samsung galaxy s9 in App. and while in other device have talkback is reading and functioning properly. But why it's not functioning properly only in Samsung galaxy s9? "For WCAG Standards…
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Toolbar content description didn't work as expected

I am setting contentDescription to a toolbar in Fragment and DialogFragment class. In Fragment class, It works fine. (e.g. on toolbar focused,"toolbarContentDescription" on next swipe forward, "Navigation Up" on next swipe backward,…
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How to hide toast message from TalkBack for some reason

For accessibility demo purpose, I’m creating android example app. By the way, during creating bad example accessibility, I have a question about toast issue. By default, every time toast is showing, TalkBack read the toast and it is very good. But…
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how to detect TalkBack is active? using Xamarin Forms -Dependency service

I will like to return true or false if TalkBack is active. public bool IsVoiceOver() { AccessibilityManager am = (AccessibilityManager) Context.AccessibilityService; var a = am.IsEnabled; if (!a) { …
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TalkBack accessibility StaggeredGridLayoutManager wrong focus order

So I'm trying to make my app accessible with the TalkBack function. I'm trying to go over 22 items in a RecyclerView with layout manager StaggeredGridLayoutManager (Staggered GridView) and I expect the focus to go by the order like the item's…
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