Questions tagged [talkback]

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 Accessbility issue when fragments change

Hey I am implementing accessibility feature in my current app. Here is the problem I am facing now. I have welcome cards where each welcome card has heading, description on the top and small note at bottom and I am placing these welcome cards inside…
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How to make TTS speak when touchevent type is down and move just as talkback?

I am trying to override the talkback, but confused about how it could speak the focus information when the motionevent is down and move. According to the example of Accessibility, my service could only speak after the finger lift up. Where to set…
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AccessibilityTraversalBefore doesn't work with talkback

I have a recycler view with a list of items. This is how it looks: I need to add Talkback support. The problem is with the order of focusing inside recycler item view. This should the correct order: 1. Name of first member (A) 2. Amount under…
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Talk Back speaks the selected text three times after double tap

I'm developing an Android application to ease navigation of visually impaired. Application's one of the features is to let user know his current position. User has two different views to know this. I'm using FragmentPagerAdapter to achieve two side…
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Gestures in Android Talkback

There are many gestures assigned in Talk-back. For instance all the L- gestures such as Swipe up then right Swipe up then left Swipe left then up Swipe left then down so on I learnt that we can assign these gestures to different actions in…
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Google talkback API to get current focus item in android

My application is supporting accessibility feature and application is having both portrait and landscape mode. In my screen i have some views like button, textview, listview with custom row. The issue what i am facing is when user focus any item in…
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About Android talkback. I want to play audio file when item is focused

i am developing an album application for visually-impaired people. I made custom list view to display list of photos. What i want is playing audio file when each item is focused using Talkback(Android Accessibility service). For example, when one of…
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Disable talkback with code

I built an application for blind people. It runs with text to speech. When I open talkback, my app does not run, lockes on logo screen. What I looking for is when my app runs talkback would stop.
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How to disable accessibility sound in android app?

I want to use custom voice in my app, how can I disable talkback sound? I have tried this @Override public boolean onRequestSendAccessibilityEvent(ViewGroup host, View child, AccessibilityEvent event) …
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accessibility of truncated view in Android

what should be the Talkback behavior on the truncated view. In one application talkback is reading entire message along with the view more button. Functionality is like that when using click on more detail additional detail what expanded and more…
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Android Talkback Accessibility - Appending to end of content description

Is it possible to append to the end what would be read for a layout? Setting the content description of the root view overrides everything and the child views are then not read. In addition getContentDescription() for a layout doesn't return what is…
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Android TalkBack how to override radio button ticked or not ticked

I have problem overriding radio button , i need to disable talkback saying ticked or not ticked ( status of radio button ) can any one know how to do that ?
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TextInputLayout inside of a scroll view label not announced

I have a not so complex layout, that is using a component, inside of a scroll view that has a nested LinearLayout, the problem is that Talkback doesn't announces the label.
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Android - Is it possible to use a parent view's content description?

For accessibility, I have a few with multiple view inside and I want them to all have the same content description. Is it possible to just set it for the parent view and have the child views use it instead of manually setting it for each view? I…
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Talkback with ExploreByTouchHelper doesn't show green square on SurfaceView inside dynamic loaded Fragment

I have a dynamic loaded fragment inside the activity. The fragment contains one SurfaceView in the bottom and it contains some text image. I used ExploreByTouchHelper for Talkback. It can read the context but can't draw the green square on…
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