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I'm wondering if it is possible to add alternative labels for voice access, to help users when interacting with items that may not contain text. For example, an icon for a shopping trolley could have ...
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I'm trying to understand which element has obtained focus when I use the tab key from a external keyboard. I'm only using composable elements in the app, mostly custom elements. I've tried to using ...
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I have a View which contains a key and a value. The key is a string and the value is a numeric value, which represents whether something has gone up or down. Visually, i use a chevron and turn the ...
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I have created a custom navigation line menu on Android TV that consists of a LinearLayoutCompat with AppCompatButtons that each represents an entry in the menu. The menu is built dynamically, in the ...
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I can see importantForA11y is for minSdk=6+ But why would one have to use it, if they can just use setConentDescription=@null? What is the difference between importantForA11y=false vs. ...
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I have the following polymer element, that inherits the "paper-behaviors/paper-button-behavior" but doesn´t provide any kind of auditive feedback when the user clicks the button. it just reads the ...
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We can populate a RecyclerView with items and, on binding, we can mark some of those items as 'headings' for accessibility. This means that in the 'headings' traversal mode of TalkBack, the user can ...
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I have an item that steals the focus when its hosting activity is opened. But then in talkback mode it's read twice. 1) how can i define an item to be read as soon as the activity it opned? 2) what ...
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I have a filters view which upon dismissing, I'd like to do 2 accessibility things: announce "$listSize items in list" since applying the filters will change the list size set focus to the "Add ...
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I would like to announce the loading text on an android intermediate progressbar. I want to output something like this for disabled people who are using talkback service on the Android device when an ...
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I'm trying to define a title for a <select> tag which is read by the Android screen reader, mostly called "Talkback". On my test device (Galaxy S8+) it's called "Voice Assistant". Interestingly,...
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I know I can query the AccesibilityManager to determine if TalkBack has been enabled. Is there a way to detect when TalkBack is enabled using a broadcast receiver? I would prefer this solution as it ...
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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 ...
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I'm writing an acessibility service in Android which relies on getting the view id of the currently selected view, however on some devices (Nexus 6P 6.0.1, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ 5 + 6.0.1) I get no ...
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We need to detect if a person is using VoiceOver, Switch Control, TalkBack, or Switch Access to display alternate buttons on our swipe-dependent application. Normally we'd look for ...
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I have a spinner which is filled with the following string array from resources. <string-array name="units_array_area"> <item>kg/hectare</item> <item>kg/acre</item&...
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I am designing an accessibility application in android which will be accessed using a bluetooth switch. The bluetooth switch will have two buttons: "Next" to navigate through the view elements & ...
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I am making my application accessibility compliant. for this providing correct data to the accessibility framework by giving android:contentDescription="your string" in xml. Also I have Seen the ...
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Is it possible to change the accessibility focus order? For example, if I have 3 views side by side, with ids view1, view2, and view3, is there a simple way to make the accessibility focus go to ...
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I am using a accessibility service and if i kill the app from running applications the system is taking away the accessibility permission that user explicitly gave and that leads me to ask for ...
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I have written an accessibility service and I want the service to be stopped/killed once it receives an accessibility event (i.e. in method onAccessibilityEvent). Can this be done? I have tried to ...
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With an accessibility service, double tapping activate the last element focused by the accessibility service. I just want to handle this event with my accessibility service but there is no listener/...
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My users will be using TalkBack enabled or some other Accessible Service. I would like to capture the onKeyEvent events in our App but the event is dispatched to the enabled Accessibility Services. ...
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I am writing an accessibility app that helps users navigate on android using a mixture of voice controls and controls provided via external aiding tools. It uses MonkeyTalk Java API to do the heavier ...
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I am conducting accessibility testing on my android application, and am running into a few accessibility issues. I want to know if it possible to change any properties of the accessibility tools in ...
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I recently started looking into automating accessibility testing on Android. There isn't much information out there on the web. Has anyone explored this or are currently doing this? If so, can you ...
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We're looking to send an accessibility event (which would be picked up by TalkBack etc.) which isn't linked to a view. For example, how could I send an accessibility event (e.g. talkback saying "Data ...
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I have been searching around to integrate an accessibility service into my application to allow software simulated keypresses of back and recent. I have followed the official android accessibility ...
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I'm developing application that views books. There is a screen (Activity) which shows a book. It has custom view, something similar to ViewSwitcher and every page is a bitmap that is rendered by a ...
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I wrote a very simple accessibilityService and i am trying to have the description of the service show up in Settings/accessibility/my app. Below is all my code which should set the description to "...
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I am developing an app which uses the accessibility api in Android. I am having a bit of a problem while guiding the user to enable the service. The only thing I found so far is : final Intent ...
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I would like to create an Android Accessibility Application/Service. This Accessibility app would be able to magnify any screen image produced by any application resident on the android device. for ...
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What is the difference between accessibility service and background service? When should I use each other?
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Hi I have a view with a TextView and linear layout. Linear layout is a kind of custom keyboard with number of buttons. So every button click I have to do some validations and append a character to the ...
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I have some problem with debugging AccessibilityService and can not find a solution - with every deployment/debug from Eclipse the service is not restarted automatically and it requires the manual ...
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My code works fine with Android versions above 4 but in Android 2.2 or 2.3 I am unable to detect Any event. Android logs show that service is running but whenever I fire a event its not recognized by ...
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How can I programatically detect if "Large Text" accessibility option is enabled on Android?
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Is Accessibility enabled for Android WebView? Can anyone tell how to make a WebView accessible?
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I'm developing an Android application with a service that extends AccessibilityService. I'd like to be able to test this without mocking out the accessibility framework. Does anyone have some ...
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I have gone through many questions, API demo regarding Accessibility feature in Android but it couldn't help. I want to support Accessibility in my Android application. Inbuilt Accessibility is ...
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I'm trying to write a very basic android accessibility service that shows a message and vibrates when any notification is raised. I've tried testing it by sending an email myself on my phone (I ...
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Has anyone implemented accessibility service? I have a requirement where in I need to know when home key is pressed from a service. I am wondering if AccessbilityService is the solution ....
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