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

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.

TalkBack came on without me turning it on. I could not access most of my apps, my phone, text (so couldn't get text verification to go into security, email, benefit, etc. apps), alarm system, swipe features to get into protected apps, etc. It was hard but I got into accessories and did a search to TalkBack. I couldn't scroll to accessory features. It took time - I had to keep tapping on toggle to turn it off. It was as if I had a virus on my cellphone.

This set of Accessibility Settings is not in it's finalized form, because it's got Apt of bugs that need to be fixed! I'm not sure about the specific bugs, but I'm certain I've encountered several of them while using the Accessibility Settings to make it easier for me to use my Android phone! The biggest issue that I can think of at the moment is that there's an issue that keeps causing the 'Select To Speak' feature to stop working and I have to go into my settings to figure out what's wrong!