Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source!
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
Also ... Why just BARD Mobile? Lol.
When not in editor mode, in an edit field, braille key presses fall through to DefaultConsumer, which calls
handleBrailleKeyWithoutKeyboardOpen(). That method has an explicit BARD Mobile package check — it bails and returns
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate Hope the braille keyboard were part of the source code. I'm not using other screen readers because the accessibility service for ABK stops working on my phone.
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@pixelate Hope the braille keyboard were part of the source code. I'm not using other screen readers because the accessibility service for ABK stops working on my phone.
@muchanchoasado Yep, it is.
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate Hopefully now more screen readers add in braille keyboards. The lack of those on Android devices is quite sad. Talkback's is the only simple good one.
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate One thing that I'm looking forward to the most is the release of One UI 9, which Samsung decided that it's the end of their Talkback. Which I think it's about damn time.
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate about time eh?
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate woot woot indeed, eh? This means we can vibeslop features we want like a clock in the screenreader or the ability to control computers and other phones from within the reader too.
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate not finding the button to download, did something on the site change?
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Okay Android folks, TalkBack 17 is released, and TalkBack 16.2 is open source! TalkBack 17 is important because Google released a little Braille display command customization, although for now you can only customize commands that are already there; you can't add any so you could move to next/previous container, for example. TalkBack 16.2 being open source is important because now, any vibe coding blind person can make their own, pretty-much-up-to-date, screen reader for Android based on TalkBack.
TalkBack 17: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-accessibility-suite/
TalkBack open source: https://github.com/google/talkback
@pixelate ok i finally got it
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@pixelate not finding the button to download, did something on the site change?
@J3317 Could be.
