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.
• For TalkBack, you can also press and hold both volume keys.

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.

Note: Switch Access has been removed from the Android Accessibility Suite. You can download the Switch Access app instead (g.co/play/switchaccess).

Ratings and reviews

You are messing around. It is a very bad update because navigating to actions automatically is stupid and ineffective at all. It drains time because I have to go back to the default format and then continue reading. You do not have the right to control the gestures. I want to customize them as I like. You do not have the right to tamper with the screen reader.

It's just keep on getting wors and worse every update. I type very slow because of the stammering when it speaks the keys in Gboard. Please improve also the speech in physical keyboard for not all knows how to use the braille feature. It was so efficient in the 12.0 version, but it started to get bad since version 13. I'm hoping that youl fix this bug. Thank you.

When you figure out how to set the talkback shortcut to turn on and off talkback by holding down both volume keys, it becomes quite empowering, allowing you to read any kindle book aloud, for example. But until you find that, you will think that your phone has become possessed! I wish that BESIDES the holding of both volume keys to toggle, there would be some gesture to turn it on and off. Activating it should also automatically turn the speaker on, or you will have no idea what's going on!

What's new

TalkBack 14.0
• Braille support in more languages
• New edit commands with braille display
• New edit gestures with braille keyboard

Select to Speak
• Select text in an app and choose “Read aloud” to hear the text spoken. Some apps may not support this yet.