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 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 is very helpful for reading articles or long scripts. It does have its limitations as I can't read all text, depending on the application, but that's okay. The biggest irritation on the recent update of this version is that It takes control of the volume keys and changes it from notification to accessibility. And there's no way to change it back unless I disable "select to speech". Even trying to use the toggle of "use volume keys for media" doesn't change the keys. Please fix it!

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.

I used this app for select to speak. this feature is incredibly useful but if I'm not currently using it then it causes issues on my device with the volume control defaulting to change the accessablily volume and not the media volume (this is a new thing that didn't used to happen) and it causes issues watching YouTube shorts as you can't get rid of the up down and play arrows if select to speak is turned on, even when your are not currently using it

What’s new

TalkBack 16.2
• New settings categories
• New gesture to start voice dictation quickly
• Announcements for text formatting changes
• New gesture to navigate phone easily
• Enhanced keyboard support with new shortcuts, tutorial, and browse mode for web navigation
• New movable speech bubble