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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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AnnounceForAccessibility with ExplorationByTouch turn off

I keep trying to make my custom input method for blind people more accessible. I had a problem AnnounceForAccessibility() doesn't work with ExplorationByTouch turn off (TalkBack is turn on). How can I resolve this problem? Can I turn off…
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Is there a way to correct the TalkBack pronunciation for the app_name or activity label?

I've this problem: I have developed an app for Italian users. My app has an English name and the TalkBack pronunciates it in a wrong way! For example, the TalkBack says the word "What" in this way: "W - H - At". So, is there a way to correct the…
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Android/TalkBack - suppress or detect "keyboard hidden" message with Google keyboard

I am developing an Android app for blind users. I expect blind users to use TalkBack. My specific question is about the TalkBack message that comes up ("keyboard hidden") when the user finishes entering text on the keyboard. I would like to…
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Phonegap / Cordova + Talkback resulting on actions being fired twice

I'm working on an App with Phonegap + AngularJS and when i touch on any item on screen, the ScreenReader speaks twice. I'm on android 4.4.2 with cordova + AngularJS = ngTouch. Have Someone had this same problem? On iOS with VoiceOver active…
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Using a webview and TTS regardless of TalkBack

I'm developing an Android webapp (an app built with Android Studio mainly based on a single webview which loads remote content) that is meant to be used by visually impaired people. Standard accessibility features, such as those provided by Android…
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Why localhost webview content does not enable TalkBack in Android

In my Android application I have loaded a web content in WebView.After enabling TalkBack feature the webview contents respond to user touching and it speaks the webview content.But when I loaded a localhost website in WebView, TalkBack does not…
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Talkback focus on linear layout in android

I have a linear layout inside an alert dialog along with othr views. I have set the content description of that linear layout. Still talkback focus does not come on it. but when the alert dialog is loaded it pronounces content description of all the…
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when the spinner is clicked, it says " Showing 2 items" while displaying dropdown view. How to override this talkback for spinner?

while I implement Spinner for creating dropdown view, the first element is always shown in main view as well as in dropdown list. so I hid it by overriding getDropdrownView(). but problem arises in talkback. Problem is: when I click on spinner, it…
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Android: Overlay view rotation when Accessibility feature is turned on

I am stuck at the following problem and need your help to resolve it. Any guidance would be highly appreciated. Scenario: I have an overlay view on top of a surface view and this overlay view has couple of images and a button. I have set the…
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How to get Talkback's rectangle foucse on DrawerLayer?

In my application I use DrawerLayout to show same help information. So I put it over actuall activity. Now I want to add TalckBack function and I cannot make that the any of view in DrawerLayout get the yellow rectangle (which marks focus in…
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Android KitKat 4.4 TalkBack view refresh issue

I'm running my app on an Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) device. My app has a ListView. When I add the last item to the list view, it shows some content, and about 5 seconds later, it changes (loads a different view to that specific list item). While…
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How to get supported locals (language translations) for a given voice by talkback in Android

I want to display list of languages which can be spoken by talkback. When I searched I found a way to get available voices by receiving broadcast with extra RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES. but here I want to know for a given voice say…
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Android 4.4.2 Accessibility Explore By Touch not working in app

I'm writing an app that behaves normally in Android 4.3 but does not in 4.4.2. The issue is that with Accessibility "Talk Back" feature turned on you should be able to explore by touch over the buttons of your app and have it announce the…
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Droid Accessibility - ListView item navigation

I am making an app that is accessible to the blind. I am using android's accessibility framework. Currently I am running into an issue with the order items in a listview are being read to the user. For example, I have a list view where each row…
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dispatchPopulateAccessibilityEvent does nothing JellyBean+

I'm trying to add text to an EditText field by using the dispatchPopulateAccessibilityEvent method. I do a event.getText().add("Say this additionally"); but it doesn't do anything but the event fires. It works on my Samsung Galaxy S3, but not on…
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