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

Was great until a few months ago. Several months ago "accessibility man" put on the bottom started randomly switching the button for SELECT TO SPEAK off. id go back into settings and readd. I gave up and switched to side buttons to activate. it work without any issues for a while. now if I rotate my screen while activated, it turns off, and I have to restart it. also it spuratly pauses while playing

Don't know why after selecting words and clicking right button for it to read but no sound at all, but you can find setting of text size and speed. My phone is working well, only it cannot. It had this sound many months ago when I used it. Recently it has not had. I am thinking to delete it for saving phone space since no use at all if no one can help me with solving this problem.

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!

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