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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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Focus on element to read by VoiceOver/TalkBack

As I am developing an App with React Native, I'm trying to make it accessible using VoiceOver/TalkBack. In my code, I have a boolean value that tracks whether an operation happened or not. Depending on the value of this boolean variable, I show in…
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How to make ClickableText accessible to screen readers

This code creates a ClickableText element in Jetpack Compose Composable: ClickableText( text = forgotPasswordAnnotatedString, onClick = { context.startActivity(intent) }, modifier = Modifier .padding(top = mediumPadding) ) The annotated…
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What is the use of setTouchExplorationPassthroughRegion() in android accessibility API?

I am developing an Android application that uses accessibility-service, and I want to disable explore-by-touch when the user opens specific applications like Piano, Games, etc. I read API documentation of…
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How to swipe between multiple links in textview using talkback in android?

I am trying to improve accessibility for a text view used for terms and privacy policy which looks something like this: As mentioned on the Google Support page, the user will need to access the Local Context Menu via a TalkBack gesture (default…
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Android Skip Focus of WebView and Go Straight To Content with TalkBack

I have a WebView in my Android app but when TalkBack is enabled, it focuses on the entire view and the user has to swipe to the next item to begin hearing the WebView content. Is there any way to skip the selection of the WebView and jump to…
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Android talkback; how to disable announcing cell position and cell count?

When I have a recycler view with 12 items, when accessibility focus goes onto cell number 3, for example, talkback announces "Double tap to activate. Item 3 of 12". I want to keep the action but stop it from announcing the item position and item…
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Android Talkback announcement interrupted

I have activity A with recipes that opens activity B for more options for a recipe. In activity B I'm doing an action (like adding to favorites) that finishes activity B. When doing that action, I'm triggering a Talkback announcement so that the…
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talkback double tap not working on recyclerview items

I have 2 recycleviews. When I click on the firstrecycleview Items, the subcategory of clicked item will show on second category . for this purpose I make a customized RecyclerItemClickListener as below . public class RecyclerItemClickListener…
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Any callbacks available for talkback reading completion - Android

I need to sign out the user if the app is idle for a few mins, it's applicable for accessibility enabled also. My scenario is one screen having a lot of text and talkback taking more time to complete this. I need to stop signout in this case. Do we…
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setAccessibilityFocus using ref not working

I'm using the ref prop along with findNodeHandle on a bunch of components in order to be able to trigger AccessibilityInfo.setAccessibilityFocus. However, it's not always working as expected. Sometimes the reference is null even though…
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How to set content description of a switch or toggle button in Android Studio?

I would like to make my app accessible with Tlkback, but I don't know how could I set different content descriptions for both states of a switch or toggle button. Do you have any suggestions?
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Flutter: How to get accessibility focus to custom appbar

If you use the default Material scaffold with the default appbar, and you open your app using TalkBack, the accessibility focus moves automatically to the first item in the appbar (usually, the "Back" button). I would like my appbar to be taller…
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Fragment's view not getting focus after replacing using Talkback

When using Talkback the replaced view produces a weird result in the top fragment. The button that triggers the transaction of the fragment is still visible(this also happens without the accessibility service on) and it still has the focus. The…
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How to add accessibility focus on an Edit Text drawable right (Talkback)

I have an editText that contains a drawableRight property. This editText is a search field, and the drawableRight is an "x" icon for clearing the text from the search field. When using Talkback (screen reader), I can't select the drawableRight to…
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Talkback: prevent to say activity label (applcation name by default)

I disabled accesibility features for all of my fragments' and Activity views. But it keeps to say activity label (it is app name by default). As I realized it does after every fragment transaction (but i'm not sure). I am going to next fragment and…
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