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0 votes
1 answer
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Restrict focus of talkback on notification bar in android

I have an android device in which I set the talkback turned on. Now whenever I restart/reboot the device at that time talkback directly gets focus on notification bar and starts speech out of "...
Nikhil's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
333 views

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 ...
Nalin's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
270 views

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 ...
Aleksandr Kozlovskiy's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

Talkback doesn't announce 'press select to activate' for a Button

I want to give following sequence of Talkback events when user navigates to a DialogFragment, 1) On navigating to DialogFragment, initial focus should be on positive Button 2) title+description of ...
musica's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
4k views

Disable touch screen in Android in accessibility service

I am developing an Android application for the deaf and blind using the accessibility service Need to disable the touch screen, because android app is controlled through a third-party device I tried ...
Evgenii's user avatar
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9 votes
2 answers
6k views

How to tell TalkBack a custom view is being used as a button

I’m using a custom view as a button on Android, which doesn't inherit from android.widget.Button. What is the best way of telling the accessibility services it's a button? Is it enough to just call ...
Tom Gilder's user avatar
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2 votes
1 answer
2k views

Accessibility Service - Insert Values to Text Field

I want to insert Barcode Scanner value(Reading barcode from a barcode scanner device which is connected to mobile) to a web page textbox field, that page is running in mobile chrome browser.
Georgey John's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
740 views

Accessibility service remove icon when user close needed application

I use Accessibility service to draw icon over Google Photos app and do it with the next code: AccessibilityServiceInfo info = new AccessibilityServiceInfo(); info.eventTypes = AccessibilityEvent....
Ruslan Leshchenko's user avatar
7 votes
3 answers
7k views

Talkback is not getting enabled through adb shell

I've tried the command adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services com.android.talkback/com.google.android.marvin.talkback.TalkBackService to enable talkback from adb shell. It's ...
Puneeth Manyam's user avatar
-1 votes
3 answers
2k views

How to focus Buttons (or other widgets) with TalkBack turned ON in Android Device?

I'm implementing Accessibility in my application. Here's the scenario : I have 4 buttons arranged horizontally at the very top of the screen (Activity). On the click of a button, I'm launching an ...
Rakesh's user avatar
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15 votes
7 answers
10k views

String is read as number rather than reading it digit by digit when talk back is on in android

I have a string "9039662543", and when talk back is on, this string is read as "nine million...." in 4.3 android devices, above 4.3 devices its working fine, by reading "nine zero three...". What ...
AnanduKrishnan P.S.'s user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
3k views

Android: how to interrupt during a talkback (accessibility) when the "focus" is on a specific view?

So, I have an Android application written in Java. I want to be able to use talkback in the accessibility option for those that are visually impaired. As the user swipes through the activity, the ...
Leesa's user avatar
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0 votes
1 answer
675 views

Why localhost webview content does not enable TalkBack in Android

In my Android application I have loaded a web content in WebView.After enabling TalkBack feature the webview contents respond to user touching and it speaks the webview content.But when I loaded a ...
user3904092's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

when the spinner is clicked, it says " Showing 2 items" while displaying dropdown view. How to override this talkback for spinner?

while I implement Spinner for creating dropdown view, the first element is always shown in main view as well as in dropdown list. so I hid it by overriding getDropdrownView(). but problem arises in ...
user1724991's user avatar
6 votes
2 answers
5k views

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. <TextView android:id="@+id/tv_3" android:layout_width="wrap_content" ...
light365's user avatar
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