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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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Android Talkback Accessibility: ToolTip vs Title/ContentDescription

For menu items, it seems like the tooltip text is being read out in Talkback along with the title/content description. Is this the expected behavior? It seems to me like the ToolTip text should not be read out by Talkback, given the current behavior…
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Customise Android talk-back/accessibility Gestures

I am working on some online shopping application. In this, we have Update Remove quantity buttons to manipulate cart quantity. This works fine in normal flow. but when accessibility is enabled, It got quite complicated as user needs to go back and…
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how to control what voiceover reads when developing a website

I am designing a website for people with visual impairments with focus on mobile usage. For now I have some simple buttons like "play", "stop" and voice over reads what I have put between tags. However, I want to make it as precise…
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Android accessibility with TalkBack: Adding a 'role' to a custom view object is not reading as a button or a link

I'm working to make a HubDisclaimerView accessible with TalkBack and the role of "button" or "link" isn't being applied. I've set a content description to announce what the text is, but the view does not inherit from Button or ImageView. It does…
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Find View with the Talkback focus in an Activity

In talkback Accessibility mode, as I dismiss the ActionMode, sometimes the talkback focus gets lost (depending on the way of dismissal). I just want to find if talkback focus is present on any visible view or not. Is there any Android API to detect…
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Android TalkBack says repeatedly "Service [my app name]"

I have a popular read aloud app, that is also often used by visually impaired and blind people. Some, very few of them complain that when using the app or having it read aloud, it repeatedly says "Service at Voice" (my app's name is @Voice Aloud…
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TalkBack - how to read string with literal punctuation?

My app needs to display numeric ranges in a TextView, such as "34-93". TalkBack is reading this as "thirty-four minus ninety-three". I want it to either read "thirty-four dash ninety-three" or "thirty-four to ninety-three" I've tried inserting…
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[Android]: TalkBack doesn't speak when AccessibilityEvent is triggered

I'm creating a custom view (extending View class) and playing with Accessibility API to understand, how it works. Below is my code, where: I check for MotionEvent equal to ACTION_HOVER_ENTER and then inside it send AccessibilityEvent of type…
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When TalkBack is ON, I no longer get KeyEvents from navigation buttons(up, down, left, right)

I am working with React Native and the Accessibility(TalkBack). The problem I am facing - when TalkBack is on, my KeyEvent listener does not register my navigation buttons on remote control. It feels like TalkBack hijacks them for it’s own…
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Is there any way to customize the Talkback highlighted rectangle on an Accessibility focused node?

When using Talkback, I'd need to customize the color of the rectangle that appears when a node is Accessibility focused. As I could not find it in settings (unless I really missed it), I downloaded the source code and dived into it, compiling and…
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Can I Turn ON / OFF Talkback programmatically?

I'm working on a university project for blind people who use Android phones (a Braille Keyboard) . So i need disable talkback when user use the keyboard and then enable it again. (for using multitouch on the screen). So I created a new sample simple…
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Android TalkBack equivalent of UIKit's UIAccessibilityTraits adjustable

Is there one? This seems so useful for vision impaired users. When a UIView has the adjustable UIAccessibilityTrait, the entire view can be focused as one unit, and the user can increase/decrease the amount of that unit or continue to swipe to other…
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Android Accessibility : characters announced twice

Precondition : Accessibility Talkback on. Problem : While typing in characters from soft keyboard into the edit text, the characters are announced twice. (I think once by the keyboard and once by the edit text).
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Disabling TalkBack usage hints ("Double tap to activate, double tap and hold for long press") after each sentence

Im using Appcelerator for Android app, After I set the accessibilityHint property, the Talkback completes saying this string, pauses and always says "Double tap to activate, double tap and hold for long press". How do i disable this? Tried with…
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Android talkback not reading the content of the dialog box

I have tried to show the dialog box while the user giving the wrong username or password, using the below code. private void showAlert(String title, String msg) { customDialog = new Dialog(LoginActivity.this, …
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