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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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ADB Accessibility Focus Change

I would like to know how to make the ADB adjust the accessibility focus while Talkback is on. I have tried: adb shell input trackball roll 0 1 adb shell input…
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Android: Send accessibility event without interrupting current one

I'm trying to send a custom accessibility event using a code similar to this one AccessibilityManager manager = (AccessibilityManager) context .getSystemService(Context.ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE); if (manager.isEnabled()) { …
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ViewPager2 + Accessibility + talkback issue while trying to change focus and scroll with swipe gesture

I have been trying to implement ViewPager2 with accessibility with talk-back but focus is not moving beyond the second partial visible item. I want to traverse and scroll the viewpager2 with talkback and accessibility but was not able to achieve…
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Can you jump out of a RecyclerView while using TalkBack gesture navigation on Android?

short version: navigating into a RecyclerView with TalkBack gestures forces you to swipe through every item before you can move on, is that normal? Is there a standard way to navigate out and onto the next element? I'm trying to get accessibility…
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Android Accessibility Voice assistant issue in Recyclerview

I have turned on my voice assistant in on in my Note 5 and trying to move forward (up to down) but it is going out of Recyclerview when it reaches to end of the screen. As there are many more items in the list so it should auto-scroll up. I have…
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Android Talkback incorrect announcement on TextInputLayout

I have the following piece of code in my layout
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Accessibility Callback - when talkback finish reading announcement

On some user action, I want to make some announcement on the screen and soon after, I want to shift accessibility focus on the specifc view. I can achieve it like, view!!.announceForAccessibility("some action failed.") Handler().postDelayed({ …
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Android NestedScrollView TalkBack - Only navigates to items visible on screen, skips over elements below scroll and goes to bottom tabs

I have a screen with a nested scroll taking up 90% of the screen and a bottom tab tab that sits fixed. I'm working on the accessibility on the screen and running into an issue where TalkBack will navigate to each item correctly as long as they are…
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How can I Turn on/off Accessibility through appium using javascript

I have this adb shell command for android and tried with the terminal and it's working perfectly. But not sure how to use this in a framework using appium command. // disable adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services…
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Android TalkBack EditText - hint vs. contentDescription

I have a TextView and an EditText. The TextView uses android:labelFor="@+id/EditTextId"; The EditText also has a hint that represents and example of input, that I only want to be visible for the users that do not use TalkBack, and not be read by…
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talkback for seekbar value?

I'm creating a music app and I'm currently working on talkback. When controlling an app's seekbar for a position, the device is saying like "60% seek control" instead of saying the actual value like "2:30". How to fix it? I was trying to use below…
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Can I give an additional label for a TextView that's only announced by TalkBack, not shown visually?

Say I have a list of items, and one of the views in each item is a message, in a simple TextView, that is populated in code (dynamic data from a backend service).
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Test accessibility (talkback) for application

I am making my application accessibility compliant. for this providing correct data to the accessibility framework by giving android:contentDescription="your string" in xml. Also I have Seen the Android Developer guide on Making Applications…
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Changing text spoken by talkback in Android

I am trying to change the text announced by TalkBack when an ImageView is focused through accessibility. The Android documentation states that we should create an AccessibilityDelegate, and override onPopulateAccessibilityEvent (I am using the…
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Android Talkback does not read utf-8 characters in the Webview using html

I have an info.html for my App which is in a webview. info.html is encoded with UTF-8. I want talkback to vocalize the text in it however it fails in some non-english characters. String infoURL = "file:///android_asset/info.html"; WebView view = …
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