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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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Set TalkBack tabbing order in toolbar

I have an activity with a toolbar , drawer and options menu. When i activate talk-back in acceptability mode, then i start tabbing between the views, it starts with the content of the fragment instead of the home button. how to set the home button…
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Can a View (not ViewGroup) contain multiple UI components that each need Talkback support

Bacground I have been working on stripping out a library that deals with adding Accessibility with Talkback that I have created in an existing app. Originally my custom views were all ViewGroups, so I got everything working amazingly with ViewGroups…
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How to suppress talkback programmatically?

Is there any way to make talkback to suppress when I open my application and resume when I stop my Application?
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Android Talkback stops on async page update (accessibility screen readers)

Testing for accessibility: I have an Angular app that async refreshes its content on a regular interval. When I visit a page in Chrome and play Talkback, the talkback will stop upon the async refresh. This makes sense (we don't want it reading old…
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Exposing Android standard controls from virtual view hierarchy

we have custom view which is exposing the content to Talkback using android's virtual view hierarchy. As part of the canvas (as a descendent) we have some standard controls like Buttons. These buttons are not getting exposed in the UI hierarchy. So…
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Trying to add an offscreen form submit option

I'm trying to use a submit input field that I placed offscreen but the screenreader for Android (Talkback) doesn't let me submit the form when I double tap. I did the same thing for IOS but the IOS screenreader (Voiceover) does register the double…
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Talkback not reading aria-label

I am using Cordova to make an Android hybrid app. I am using Android 5.1 on a Galaxy S6. It seems that Talkback is not reading the aria-label to notify the user when the menu is opened or closed. Does anyone know if this a known issue with Android?
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Accessibility force enabling is not working in android jelly bean

My project need accessibility feature, I need to enable programmatically. I am using below code snippet to make on. Settings.Secure.putString(context.getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.ENABLED_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES, …
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Android: Read text from view without accessibility?

Trying to make a service that takes the Fitbit app and creates an alert whenever the HR exceeds a specified zone. Is it possible to parse the view's text without Talkback? I'm trying to avoid Talkback because It can't be turned on/off via the…
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Android read all elements in talkback

I am going to develop an app for blind users. I would like to have a function that once an Activity is start, Talkback would read all elements on that Activity. Is there any ways to force Talkback to read all elements in a single activity? (The…
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Implementing accessibility in viewpager android to have a "swipe next for more" kind of thing

I am implementing a viewpager which has multiple hints to a particular functionality. Now when I activate talkback feature it reads the content in the current view. I also want the talkback to say as "swipe left for more hints" how can I do that.
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Talkback not reading data table headers in Android Lollipop

when I upgraded to Android 5.x it looks like Talkback will no longer read the data table headers in hybrid app. Anybody know if this is broken? I am using Cordova and jQuery Mobile to create my app and below is the code that I am using:
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Android accessibility for TextView with different locales

In my app, I have android:text="@string/myText" set for a TextView. This myText is picked from strings.xml based on the localization(English/German). For English: SETTINGSFor German: EINSTELLUNGEN With TalkBack on, Android announces SETTINGS (locale…
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Announce QuickAction window dismissal with TalkBack

I have a custom QuickAction menu in my app. I have added contentDescription "Open Menu" for the ImageView which opens the menu. So my TalkBack(form the Accessibility settings) announces the same. The popup menu has setOutsideTouchable(true) to…
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Android - How to set an Accessibility Delegate on a Menu Item?

Is it possible in any way to set an Accessibility Delegate on a Menu Item? My app uses text-to-speech and I want to execute some custom code before TalkBack starts speaking the content description of my menu item (which happens when the menu item…
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