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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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Screenreaders fail to read out checkbox label on mobile browsers

Been running into some screenreader issues with both Mobile Chrome + TalkBack, as well as Mobile Safari + Voiceover. Thought it might have been my code at first, but encountered the same problems running the following code on a page with no other…
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How to get currently accessibility selected item with Talkback Enabled

I am setting up a function that will deliver sounds based on the item currently selected by the Talk Back accessibility service. My issue is that I can not find a way to actually ask Android what has been currently selected by TalkBack.
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Android talkback announce some words as character by character in nexus

In nexus device, Android accessibility "valid through" talkback as "'V' 'A' 'L' 'I' 'D' through". please share your thought why this happens in nexus? We already checked it with some other versions of android devices but it is working fine. Thanks!
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Android how to set ImageButton accessibility focus

I trying to apply accessibility about talkback on my app. I want to change the focus to a ImageButton (custom keypad layout) when the user selects EditText. here is my code summary. edittext.setAccessibilityDelegate(new View.AccessibilityDelegate()…
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Can I develop an application that extend Talkback functions on android?

I want to develop an application that extend/change TalkBack functions. For example: every time "TalkBack" reads a text from a Facebook post or a tweet or any other app, it says "I finished" at the end of every Facebook post or a tweet etc.
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Android accessibility in Edit text box text not reading properly/Expect After Talk back on

I am creating app for blind people. there, when blind people after entered the zip code on that profile registration Edit Text box, like 45987. It reading as Fourty Five Thousand and Nine hundred eighty seven. But, I want to read an Four Five Nine…
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TalkBack should read Heading

All headers in the app should have the accessibility trait (heading), which should be read aloud by TalkBack. For example, CardView title should be read as "My Title Heading" I implemented using setContentDescription but is there any other method to…
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How to enable Text to Speech/Talkback from another app in android

I've a requirement to enable or disable Text-to-Speech option from my app. We will provide a button for the user. If TTS is enabled and user presses the button TTS will get disabled and if TTS is disabled and user presses the button TTS will get…
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Focus border not appearing when TalkBack is enabled on Android devices

I am working on a Cordova Application for Android and iOS devices and I want to integrate accessibility into the application. I am having an issue with the focus border. When TalkBack is on for Android devices, the voice assistant recognizes the…
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Some text disappears when view is focussed and accessibility is ON

I have one textview in custom titlebar.In titlebar i am displaying a textview which is responsible to show the title of the page. Below is the code i am using Activity: getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, …
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If some content is not accessible, it is better to hide it in the UI or mark android:importantForAccessibility="no"?

I have some content that is not accessible to Talkback user (Google Map view). Is it better to hide this view when Talkback is on or it is better to just mark android:importantForAccessibility="no"?
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Talkback doesn't navigate to the view above recycler view

I am using Recycler view for showing list items. I have made the first view item 'GONE' and set its height to 0. Currently focus is on 2nd item (technically its a 1st item, since the actual 1st item is not there). What I observed is, if I swipe…
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how to disable ExpandableListView Accessibility announcement (Talkback)

I have an issue with ExpandableListView overlay another view. I tried to disable the ExpandableListView by: public void isAccisability(boolean isActive) { expandableListCategories.setEnabled(false); …
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Are there any JavaScript events being fired when swiping on the WebView with Talkback (screen reader) is on?

I have an Android app that hosts an WebView and we want to adopt some accessibility feature on it. Short question: Are there any talkback events on the JavaScript side being fired when user swipe left or right on the WebView? Details: On the WebView…
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ListView Accessibility return Index

I enabled the Talkback feature on the phone. The user makes a touch wipe gesture to the right to select/highlight/etc the next item in the list. I want to have the index of this newly selected element in the list. I am trying to get the index of…
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