When opening a Dialog in Jetpack Compose, Talkback will always read the application label, before reading the Dialog title. I have already tried setting the activity lable in the manifest to someth...

Problem When opening a BottomSheetDialogFragment, with composable content, and TalkBack enabled, the app label is announced immediately. This is an unexpected and jarring experience for TalkBack us...

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. Somet...

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 cal...

Imagine you have a LinearLayout inside a RelativeLayout that contains 3 TextViews with artist, song and album: <RelativeLayout ... <LinearLayout android:id="@id/text_view_container" andr...

I can not find an answer to what should be a very simple task. Can someone explain to me the best way to turn off accessibility (talkback) for an individual element in android? I have a TextView t...

I am working on a large project, where we use TextViews to show text as well as a hint. When using talkback (accessibility), I have noticed that the hint on a TextView is read twice. Also even wh...

I have an ImageView in the layout with content description = 'Close'. When Talkback is turned on, it says "Close button, out of list". Why does Talkback say 'out of list' in addition and ...

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 { T...

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 t...

For an application that I work on, I need to implement accessibility. Everything works fine except for one screen where I have to fragments added to my activity. Basically, the fragment that is abo...

I'm developing an application that uses TalkBack to guide people through it. However, in those situations I want to have some subtile differences in the layout of the application so navigation is e...

Is there a way to get the talkback function in Android accessibility to say something after a fragment transaction? I basically want the talkback to say the name/title of the fragment after switchi...

Let's say I have a Column with Rows. Each Row is a logical unit and I want Talkback to navigate through the Column Row by Row, without selecting and descendants of the row. That's easily achievable...

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 cod...

So I am using RecyclerView for a page. When the user goes from outside the recyclerview to inside the recyclerview, talkback reads "in list X items" (x is number of items in list) at the end. Is th...

I have a custom control extending SeekBar, in which I have overridden onInitializeAccessibilityNodeInfo as below: @Override public void onInitializeAccessibilityNodeInfo(AccessibilityNodeInfo info...

I have one large TextView, which is a larger amount of HTML text depending on what is being displayed. Even though all of the content is in a single TextView, I want the paragraphs contained insid...

When TalkBack is enabled, is there any way to set the accessibility focus manual to a specific view? For instance, when my Activity is started I want TalkBack to automatically focus on a certain Bu...

I have a view that has a long press action handler. I use the content description to set the message Talkback speaks when the view gets focus. Currently it says my content description right after ...

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 s...

How can I change the default Text content description to be read on TalkBack on Jetpack Compose to any text that I want ?

Background: What is the problem My app has this acronym for a word let us assume it is ABC When I use Google's voice service it reads out the letters which is great However when I use Samsun...

Android 9 has introduced accessibilityHeading tag, which can be used by talkback to announce the Headings. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0#a11y Look for Heading-based...

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 s...