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 7 (Android N) 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 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

TalkBack completely froze my phone for multiple minutes, then when all of the commands I tried to input (like the power button) it would unfreeze long enough to show and then freeze again. It took me about 20 minutes to get the phone restarted when I was able to quick use the swipe commands to turn it off. While it was not the longest issue with a Google service, it was the most frustrating in the 14 years I've owned an Android. I've been thinking of iOS for a while, and this might be the straw.

The only thing I don't like about this is that it seems like there's no set way to set how you bring up the different menus because there's a lot of accessibility settings on the pixel 10 pro. but only like three different ways to bring them up and they don't always show. ex: two fingers swipe up doesn't always show up but volume buttons does and sometimes the accessibility character in the bottom right will be an option and sometimes it's not but it's mainly the two finger swipe. Its random

I couldn't be more upset with your voice reader. I'm in tears over the way it made my phone unusable. I couldn't even scroll to get back to the accessibility settings. I eventually had to search, use Google voice assistant, and pull up "voice assistant". Then cried when I finally was able to turn the nightmare off. Who would want that? Seriously? The level of difficulty in navigating through the phone was on expert and I was a newbie. You need an overlay on off switch or something.

What’s new

TalkBack 17.0
• More ways to customize your braille display
• A more reliable keyboard experience
• More reading control hints when navigating with a physical keyboard