Android Accessibility Suite

Google LLC

About this app

Android Accessibility Suite is a collection of accessibility apps that help you use your Android device eyes-free or with a switch device.

Android Accessibility Suite includes:
• Accessibility Menu: Use this large on-screen menu to lock your phone, control volume and brightness, take screenshots and more.
• Select to Speak: Select items on your screen and hear them read aloud.
• TalkBack screen reader: Get spoken feedback, control your device with gestures and type with the on-screen braille keyboard.

To get started:
1. Open your device's Settings app.
2. Select Accessibility.
3. Select Accessibility Menu, Select to Speak or TalkBack.

Android Accessibility Suite requires Android 6 (Android M) or later. To use TalkBack for Wear, you'll need Wear OS 3.0 or later.

Permissions notice
• Phone: Android Accessibility Suite observes the phone state so that it can adapt announcements to your call status.
• Accessibility Service: Because this app is an accessibility service, it can observe your actions, retrieve window content and observe text that you type.
• Notifications: When you allow this permission, TalkBack can notify you about updates.

Ratings and reviews

This app and others like it allow my soon to be ex-wife to hack every single account and application on multiple devices of mine and I'm constantly tracked, monitored, recorded, settings changed randomly on different phones on same accounts... it doesn't matter how many times I change passwords, phones, sims, she is able to get into whatever device, app, or account that she pleases and does so with seemingly no difficulty at all. I am so sick and tired of this. HELP

TalkBack is awful to navigate. I use it to assist with reading for my ADHD and it can be a bigger barrier just trying to use the app than it is trying to focus on reading long articles without help (which is nearly impossible, some days). It's not user friendly at all, and it can't read scanned documents, which is a major drawback. It's better than nothing, I guess, but I get so frustrated sometimes that I have a meltdown and give up.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable device, but there is a long way to go. Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that. Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way...It's secure!