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

I went through 2 hours of hell trying to turn off this feature. It literally took control of my phone & I couldn't do anything even when I tried to turn phone off. It tells you to double click on an app, but couldn't get any app to open, power off phone, go into settings to turn off Talkback feature. I wanted to hear my word document read out loud, but nothing happened except pure irritation. I finally by grace GOD was able reboot, but it still was very hard to navigate phone & turn it off.

Google talk back keeps going to mic randomly like every few seconds! No matter what I do it won't stop!!!! If there were a zero stars I'd give it that rating or even negative 10!!!!!! So here's an update to the Talk back feature: still having problems. I don't know how it's auto activating but I think it has something to do with my fingerprint reader. If I accidentally touch it a certain amount of times it turns the talkback on. AND there is no option to disable it which that needs to change!

Edit: You've made this near worthless. Select to Speak stops when you get to the bottom of the visible page, when previously it would keep going to the bottom of the full web page that you can't see on screen when you start. TalkBack's shake to start continuous reading is gone? Edit 2: They've made it worse again with another update. Continuous reading only for right swipe which sends you to the top of the selection. Pressing down doesn't start continuous reading. =(

What's new

TalkBack 14.2
• Proofreading now supports spelling and grammar correction
• Expanded support for automatic image descriptions
• Improvements to continuous reading
• New languages and shortcuts for braille

TalkBack on Wear OS 14.1
• Bug fixes