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

Whenever I play a video on Facebook, the TalkBack continuously speaks and does not shows the option to revind, pause and forward any video properly. Along with tha5.t, it does not read the name of a particular video properly whenever I scroll on Facebook to play it. These are the most common accessibility bugs. Kindly investigate and resolve these issues.

There is a bug with the latest version of TalkBack that causes it to crash while using Discord, specifically when in the server list. This issue does not happen with other screen readers, which leads me to believe it's a TalkBack issue specifically, and not with Discord. I will post a review on their app as well just to make sure. Other than that, this is a pretty good screen reader.

Last update made it more difficult to use. Keeps stopping after one sentence at most or reads everything on screen. No setting to adjust this default, and getting into the app setting is something you have to be quick to do, as the reader auto shuts down after reading. It is also not obvious if this is a 3rd party app or part of your phone settings. I used to be able to copy several paragraphs a text note and have it read the entire thing, now I have to keep click on every sentence.

What’s new

TalkBack 15.2
• Added support for connecting to braille displays via HID. This allows for easier connection via Bluetooth.