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

Been using this for a few years do to me sucking at reading and has made thing easier but there's a glitch that Causes the button to make a dead space When it finishes reading it sometimes won't let me tap the area where it was the default being the top right corner. and the stop button not disappear causing multiple to appear turning it off and on again fixes it but the issue is vary common fixing this issue would be appreciated Can't click post now on this review because of that

I have bad vision & sensitive to light. More often than not, text is the only thing thats really difficult for me to read. I primarily navigate my phone via my bluetooth keyboard. What I was hoping for was something to let me know where i am on the page & to have the read aloud option easily available. But no. This is is read all or nothing feature. Also, theres no option to save custom configuratons. So if you turn it off, everything is back to default.

It's well known that the accessibility options on Android phones can be used maliciously to gain an unbelievable amount of information off of another user. I found an extensively large button menu in the Switch Access settings, which just on its own leaves me wondering if I have ever had a secure moment on any Android phone. The Accessibility Suite is good at heart, but it seems like it's just a giant corrupt permissions menu.

What's new

TalkBack 14.1
• AI-generated descriptions of images (English only)
• Auto-scroll for braille display
• Spell check for braille keyboard
• New braille languages

Select to Speak
• Support in most apps to read selected text aloud
• Voice selection (available in Select to Speak settings)