Questions tagged [accessibility]
Questions regarding the accessibility features of Android to assist users with visual, physical, or other disabilities.
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Multi-language support in Android text-to-speech settings
I think it would be nice if in the text-to-speech settings you could specify a cascading set of languages, with dictionaries, associated with each language, intrinsic in the language selection.
When, ...
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Learning Braille through TalkBack braille input [closed]
The Android TalkBack keyboard is especially important to allowing users to enter braille to type in text.
However, it is possible that some people may want to learn braille as part of a teaching ...
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'adb wm size' to part of the screen
I want my android version 5.1 screen to be more accessible
The base resolution of my android screen is
720x1280
I did
adb shell wm size 720x892
and it gave me this:
Now I want to achieve this:
How ...
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Android Television: WOL (Wake On LAN) for accessibility
Suppose a disabled user with paralyzed arms is sitting at a wheelchair and utilizing and navigating their phone via voice access or camera switches.
Suppose, now, that the TV is off, that the ...
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Theoretical and practical categorization of camera switches: categorization and implementation: techniques and strategies
This post has some overlapping with UX, so I could have posted it on the UX stack exchange, but I wanted to make it specific, to, camera switch support, in Android. That is why I have posted it here. ...
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accessibility: Camera switches and switch access users: typing with the eyes closed through Morse Codes
Currently, users navigating the phone through the switch access accessibility feature navigate the phone, and enter, text, ...
by looking at the keyboard keys and entering then by navigating through ...
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Android accessibility, camera switches, accommodating new comfortable or comforting navigation modalities
Android comes with an accessibility feature called Camera Switches, which is designed to help people with motor impairment, who can only move some of their eyes (up, right, left), eyebrows (up), or ...
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Parental control: interrupting apps sent over the network to direct child to other app or external event
Phones can be used to interrupt children.
The common scenario, is, that the child wants to use the phone to understand something or to do something, but the parent wants to interrupt the child to get ...
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Difference between the various podcast apps in a nutshell, what do they do? [closed]
I have several times heared the word podcast. I have two disabilities, relating to sound, listening:
hyperexcitability
Sounds can be very exciting, and make me become perceived as antisocial or ...
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How to change input device for Android Voice Access (Accessibility)?
I am running Lineage OS v20, my device is rooted OnePlus 7.
I want to use my Bluetooth device as an input for the Voice Access, but it doesn't work.
I tried changing audio_policy_configuration.xml by ...
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How can I have an Android tablet to dial an Android cell phone to make calls?
I would like to initiate a cellular call from an Android tablet. When doing so, I want to do so without touching the phone.
Additionally, I am wondering about using the tablet as a headset with a ...
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Android Accessibility Suite Doesn't Remember App Settings
Okay so, I have a Unihertz Jelly Star running Android 13.
Because it has such a small screen, I'd like the ability to quickly toggle auto rotation. If I could add it as one of the functions on the ...
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Chrome bookmarks desktop (embedded in Chrome)
I was wondering whether within Chrome it is possible to create a set of bookmarks via web site icons that get placed on a special, scroll-bar and screens enabled, bookmarks page.
That way, WITHIN ...
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One-handed (half-QWERTY) layout for physical keyboard connected to non-rooted Android device
My goal is to be able to use a physical keyboard (connected to a non-rooted Android 10+ device via Bluetooth) to input letters located on the right side of a QWERTY keyboard while actually pressing ...
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Android wheelchairs
I was wondering whether there exist any Android wheelchairs that run Android.
These could allow people that were unable to move their limbs but could still use voice to control their wheelchair ...
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Is the Accessibility permission of Maxlock safe?
Is it safe to use the Maxlock app if it asks for accessibility permission to work properly? I need it to lock the Settings app. I am aware that this kind of permission could be dangerous, but Maxlock ...
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How do I bypass ACCESSIBILITY_DATA_PRIVATE_YES?
https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-review/ says:
In another attempt to limit the havoc false accessibility services can wreak, Google offers a new option for app developers to limit the ...
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Honor 8 : Is there a way of taking a screenshot without using the power button?
When I used to take a screenshot on a cell phone (Honor 8, not rooted, Android 8.0.0), I push the power button and the volume button together. But now the power button on a cell phone has stopped ...
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How to have app names be spoken aloud on a new notification?
How can app names be spoken aloud on a new notification? For example: if I receive an email, I'd like to hear the word "Gmail" spoken aloud.
I could use TalkBack for this, but then the ...
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Google One app: sharing with others, using this to make sure files are not deleted
On the Google One app can I make use of feature found on the web as in the following image:
"Share with you to 5 others"
It is saying I can share my account.
Therefore, if I create another ...
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Most suitable file formats for exporting a text chat from a chat application
This post may be more appropriate on Super User Stack Exchange.
Please migrate my post there if more appropriate.
I was wondering what the best file format world be for exporting a chat from a ...
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Smaller floating windows of smaller sizes
I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone.
While using Android I was able to create a smaller floating (on top) window, in one of two sizes, for one app (in my case, the WhatsApp app), as shown ...
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Getting Google Maps to lead the road through a path from Google Assistant
I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone.
I was able to use the interface between Google Assistant and the Camera app by saying "Take a photo", and, Google Assistant takes a photo (...
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Setting a reminder for when you enter your car
Most of us have Android smartphones. At the same time, not all of us may have Android powered(/enabled) cars, but, may have to do something (such, as, check a note in the front drawer, or under the ...
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Cycling and launching apps through holding down power button: extra support for blind users
I want to use Android as a person that cannot read (for example, as a blind user), in a supermarket to read out what's in front in me via voice, using headphones, by pointing my Android phone with ...
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Android interaction and input systems for people with severe tremors
I wonder whether any work has been done in Android to support people with severe hand tremors in the accessibility settings.
I was thinking, the device could be configured, so that touching several ...
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How does TalkBack works with a braille display?
I am new to Android development. I have a doubt with regard to the Android TalkBack feature and how it is used with a braille display. In my project, I'm trying to use this TalkBack feature to print/...
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Delay text selection mode after touch
When a text is displayed e.g. in Chrome, you can switch to text selection mode with a long-press.
I often enter this mode accidentally when I only want to scroll slowly. I tend to scroll continuously ...
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Running Android apps on Windows 11 in extended mode directly from the phone via USB cable connection
I was thinking it would be nice if you could attach a USB cable between an Android system and a PC, and view the whole Android operating system on top of the PC.
You can open, then, apps, ... on the ...
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How to disable the magnifying window function while holding on the text?
Recently, I changed my phone to Nokia 6.2 with Android 11 system and I find a new feature that is really user-unfriendly to me. In my old phones when I press and hold on the text in an address bar(or ...
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Focus navigation via external keyboard and mouse (or Gboard) in Android
I was wondering whether there is a way to configure the phone for accessibility needs to reflect the spasm pattern and attachment characteristics of people whom may bee affected by spasms and or ...
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Accessibility: paused or stumbled voice input to Google Assistant
This post is an accessibility request to do with voice input to Google which is paused or stumbled.
When my five year old child uses the Google Assistant search box on the Google Assistant widget to ...
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Advice Setting Up an Android Phone for an Elderly User
My grandmother wants to use a smart phone but I'm struggling to set it up in a way that is intuitive for her. Although she's used older mobile phones for decades, she doesn't have any experience with ...
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Google Keep: searching within a given tag
I was wondering whether there is a way to search within a given tag in Google Keep.
On Stack Exchange it is possible to do so, so I was wondering how to do this in Keep.
This can or could be ...
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Per app, app-specific accessibility text to speech settings (and API)
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I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone. On my phone I am able to have a stay on top icon area with accessibility shortcuts, as in the photo posted below. I can configure this so ...
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Google Calendar, shortcut to get you to the current day while scrolling
I wonder whether there is a shortcut (or, alternatively, any quick way) to get you back to the current day (the one we're in in the month we're in in the year we're in) on Google Calendar.
The ...
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Google Assistant not properly answering questions about people's age or birth date (foreign names misheard)
I am running Android 11 on a Realme 8 5G phone. I would like Google Assistant to answer basic questions about people's age and birth dates, including my own.
I don't understand why it doesn't do this. ...
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How to view the year of a date in Google Calendar for Android
I would like to know, something very easy. How do I figure out the year of a section of the scrollable list of days I am viewing in the Google Calendar app for Android?
Here is a screenshot.
I don't ...
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Android voice navigation support for limb impaired users and rainy weather
I was wondering whether there is any support or whether Android had any plans to support using Android under the rain (for instance, also in situations where an umbrella may not be enough because of ...
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Combined touch plus swipe gestures and TalkBack
I would like to know whether on Android devices it is possible to input a combined touch plus swipe gesture.
For instance, I could touch with one or more fingers with the left hand, and simultaneously ...
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Force enable accessibility services in any app at work profile without root
So there's this P2E game I've been playing for years while sleeping now, but this game suddenly blocked all automation apps, forcing me to play it while awake.
Now, does anyone have knowledge in any ...
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Creating and adding social media stickers on Gboard
In Gboard I am able to find various stickers which I can use in social media messaging comunications (can they be used elsewhere as well / where (else) can they be used?).
So, I am able to find them ...
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Changing avatar gender in Bitmoji Gboard addon
I've added the Bitmoji stickers app in Gboard, but now that I've created my avatar, I would like to change it from male to female.
How can I do that?
Can i do that without starting over (given that I ...
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Gboard: how to stick sticker collection at the top
I am interested in a set of stickers called Tonton.
I found this set of stickers in WhatsApp as an addon listed as Tonton stickers by Tonton House. However, this set of stickers seemed incomplete, so ...
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Android system fonts and other fonts and dyslexia
I would like to know whether Android fonts are optimized for dyslexia. Because, to my understanding, dyslexia users read better when specific fonts that have gaps and unevennesses in the spacing and ...
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Why isn't Android's Google Assistant multilingual?
I have configured Android with English as my system language but wanted to use Android Assistant in multilingual mode.
When speaking to it, it should be able to use Google Translate's language ...
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TalkBack and speech-dumb users
I am a speech-dumb person. I can read and write to understand, but when spoken to, I have difficulty grocking and grasping what is said.
My ambition, at the moment, is to be able to use voice input ...
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Android support for foldables constructed from two separate phones
I would like to know what the difference is in software between an Android foldable phone and two phones attached together via Bluetooth, ad a sigle is OS (does, Android, support this), and a plastic ...
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Foldable phone configuration question
This question is about configuration settings and window manager and layout for foldable phones.
I would like to know, whether, on a foldable phone, I can stick on one side, a fixed, booklet, with ...
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Google Assistant not working across languages
I am running Google Assistant on Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone.
I have both English and Italian configured as languages in Settings.
When I issue the command "Open Settings" the Settings ...