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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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How to change initial Talkback focus when code Android View in Jetpack Compose

Basically, I am looking for a equivalent in Jetpack Compose of the sendAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_FOCUSED) used in xml. Currently, my page looks in this structure: Surface { TopToolbarBar() { Row() { …
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Send accessibility events not linked to any composable in Jetpack compose

Trying to announce accessibility when showing a pop up/Dialog. After hours of searching found the following code but this does not work for jetpack compose. Looking for something similar to the code given below but in Jetpack Compose if…
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How to get TalkBack to read into nested RecyclerView's contents

I have a RecyclerView, whose cells each contain a complex layout of various Elements such as images, text fields, etc. One of the elements contained within the main RecyclerView's cells is another RecyclerView (it's a grid list of "chips"). When I…
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Is it possible for the Android WebView to announce only it's content in TalkBack?

When using TalkBack and iterating over the screen and the next element is a WebView, the first thing what TalkBack announces is the WebView itself, which is not really informative. After I swipe again, the TalkBack starts to iterate over the content…
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React-Native Talkback reads component accessibilityRole in wrong language

I have a React-Native application where we want to support Talkback in Finnish and English. When using Google's Text to Speech module in Finnish everything else works fine, except "button" is read as "button" instead of Finnish equivalent "Painike".…
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Wrong Accessibility Traversal order in Nested Recyclerview inside NestedScrollView

For accessibility I'm trying to traverse through a (nested) RecyclerView, using Talkback. However, instead of scrolling all the way to the bottom of the screen (vertically), the swipe of the horizontal RecyclerView is triggered. As a result, it is…
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When should we use `accessibilityRole` in React Native?

Is this correct? I'm afraid it will read the word 'switch' twice to the user.
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How to switch off explore by touch for some accessibility service

How i can switch off explore by touch for some accessibility service,for example for google talkback,if i know package of this service. I try to change preferences of this service,because i know,that in talkback use PreferenceFragment key,which…
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Android change accessibility order with setAccessibilityTraversalAfter() not working

What I want is to change the accessibility order, the order in which the screen reader, the TalkBack in that Android case, read the elements, after pressing a button. This is what I tried by far, but it doesn't work, the order is still the initial…
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Is there any way to get the latest TalkBack source code?

I would like to customize google TalkBack for some reasons. The latest open source code version in GitHub is 6.1 but in devices, we are getting 7.3.0.239841594. Is there any way to get the latest source code of version 7.3.0.239841594.
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Is there any way to announce drawable of text field in android talkback

Using a custom EditText that have drawable right
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Pronounce custom statement instead of checked/unchecked

I am looking to see if it's possible to change the checked/unchecked statement made during TalkBack for radio buttons in Android. When the radio button is currently in focus, TalkBack will say whether it is checked or unchecked. I wanted to see if…
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How to prevent Spinner announcement when initialized

Background The fragment creates it's views and then starts a network operation. When the network operation is completed, various types of subviews are created and added to the fragment's view, based on the results of the network…
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Android Talkback Announcement Localization

I have a duo lingo (English + Spanish) android application. I am implementing accessibility in my application, and I want the Talkback to read the Spanish words in Spanish and the English words in English. The English and Spanish words are going to…
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Android Accessibility: Reading custom text on activity launch

I want to read some instruction via accessibility as soon as My activity is launched. How can I do this? (I don't want to read out the activity label)
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