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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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Talkback focus goes to toolbar items when recyclerview within nestedscrollview is scrolled

I have a nestedscrollview within my layout which contains few texts, buttons and recyclerviews. When talkback is on, I am able to traverse through all elements. But I face an issue. When my horizontal recyclerview is scrolled and then I swipe to…
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Recycler View Item Decoration does not get focus and Talkback does not announce it

I am using Custom Recycler View Item Decoration. When I switch on TalkBack, all the Recycler View items get focus and Talkback announces it but View Item decorators do not get focus and Talkback does not announce them. What I am missing ? How can I…
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Navigate between headings with swipe while using talkback

Android 9 has introduced accessibilityHeading tag, which can be used by talkback to announce the Headings. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0#a11y Look for Heading-based navigation In my app I have multiple Textviews in my…
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Android Accessability RecyclerView reading "in list X items"

So I am using RecyclerView for a page. When the user goes from outside the recyclerview to inside the recyclerview, talkback reads "in list X items" (x is number of items in list) at the end. Is there any way to stop it from doing this? One easy fix…
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Android Talkback not registering onFocus for web. How do I manipulate accessibility focus with Android Talkback?

As the title says, Android Talkback is not registering the onFocus event. I understand that the onFocus event is not ever registered since the screen reader is using a special type of accessibility focus. How, then, can we drive/manipulate the…
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Talk back announce Double Tap to Activate on header element

I am working on a mobile site which needs to be accessible with screen reader. I am testing it with Talk back on android device. Problem is Talk back announce "Double Tap to Activate" on each element, even if it is Header (H1, H2...) or a text only…
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How to disable talkback functionality whenever my app is active?

I am developing an android app for the blind community.In my application, I am handling all taps/touches with TTS/audio file.It works fine, but when user turns on TalkBack functionality all taps/touches are dictated twice. First, it will dictate by…
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How can I modify the TalkBack usage hint for a clickable View on Android?

By default, clickable Views on Android will be rendered with a usage hint that's read aloud (if TalkBack is enabled and the user focuses on that View) after the content description: "Double tap to activate" Can I change this so it reads out…
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Android TalkBack focuses behind a transparent layer

I have a transparent view in my app on top of a few fragments. So my fragments are below the transparent overlay, but they are not reachable by the user while the overlay is opened, as touching the overlay will dismiss it. All work fine up to the…
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onTouchEvent is not called when talkback enabled on custom view

I'm implementing custom keyboard (through custom view) for password field and trying add accessibility feature, so when user single press on view it should pronounce selected value. In my custom keyboard I need coordinates from MotionEvent so view…
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Android Acccessibility: How do I change the text read out loud for an EditText View

By default, the Accessibility Services will read out the following for an EditText view If the EditText has a value entered = it will read out that value If there is not value entered = it will read out the "hint" I want it to read out something…
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Accessibility Dialog/DialogFragment reads text instead of content description

I have a dialog, that has few textviews. For each textview I have set different content description and text. For eg.
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Full touch access despite TalkBack/screen reader

Preamble TalkBack is an Accessibility Service for Android that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices. It’s an screen reader, that reads every user interface element. This is great visually impaired people can use so many…
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How to add contentDescription to ListPreference?

How to add contentDescription to ListPreference in android. The contentDescription have to be used in list I have few times in my preference layout ListPreference wyich looks like this
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How do you get a newly started Activity to announce itself in Android TalkBack?

How do you get a newly started Activity to announce itself in Android TalkBack? All the documentation I can find only refers to Views, not Activities, and those Views only announce themselves when touched. What I need is, on a change of Activity,…
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