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.
• Switch Access: Interact with your Android device using one or more switches or a keyboard instead of the touchscreen - You can also use Camera Switches to navigate with facial gestures.
• 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, Switch Access, 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.

Ratings and reviews

I've personally not had the issues others have mentioned. The settings are highly robust & I can turn almost everything off if needed. I love the ability to to adjust font & size, though it doesn't negate the need for a magnifier on some apps. The window zoom in accesibility shortcuts is great. Being able to turn auto rotate on/off on the fly is useful. My only wish is that the physical keyboard had a dark mode option, or sepiatone :) but I'm not even sure if that's the same app.

Worst app EVER! somehow it got activated while I will pressing the volume button and I COULDN'T SHUT IT OFF! It made the phone absolutely useless. I couldn't scroll, I couldn't access any settings because it was "out of range". It disabled my Google Assistant. I finally had to do a hard reset to get the damn thing to turn off. I am now trying to find a way to either delete the app or disabled it, so this doesn't happen again. Whoever created this, you need to find a different career.

TalkBack came on without me turning it on. I could not access most of my apps, my phone, text (so couldn't get text verification to go into security, email, benefit, etc. apps), alarm system, swipe features to get into protected apps, etc. It was hard but I got into accessories and did a search to TalkBack. I couldn't scroll to accessory features. It took time - I had to keep tapping on toggle to turn it off. It was as if I had a virus on my cellphone.

What's new

TalkBack 13.1
• New gesture for typing
• Spell check
• Volume control changes
• Container navigation
• Braille support in more languages
• USB connection to braille displays

Switch Access
• Support for a new Switch Access app