Google TalkBack

TalkBack is an accessibility service for the Android operating system that helps blind and visually impaired users to interact with their devices. It uses spoken words, vibration and other audible feedback to allow the user to know what is happening on the screen allowing the user to better interact with their device. The service is pre-installed on many Android devices, and it became part of the Android Accessibility Suite in 2017. According to the Google Play Store, the Android Accessibility Suite has been downloaded over five billion times, including devices that have the suite preinstalled

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It sits within the topics Android (operating system) software, Google Play ID same as Wikidata and Mobile applications.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: screen reader
Developer: Google
Platform: Android

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distributed by: Google Play

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Encyclopedic overview

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Open-source
Release history
References
External links

== Open-source == Google releases the source code of TalkBack with some releases of the accessibility service to GitHub, with the latest of these changes being from May 6, 2021. The source for these versions of Google TalkBack have been released under the Apache License version 2.0.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Google TalkBack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.