Android Accessibility — Resolving common Talkback issues

<p>Many Android applications suffer from similar Talkback issues and at Microsoft To Do we run into these often as well. We use multiple strategies to make our app more accessible. This article covers a few scenarios where Talkback experience is improved.</p> <p>A companion Github repository containing the sample code is available&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/sigute/AccessibilityTipsDemo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. You can check it out and try running the demo app on your device to experience the issues and try the solutions yourself.</p> <h1>Combining views into groups</h1> <p>Not everything visible on the screen is meaningful; some views are used only for decoration, some images illustrate the text without adding additional information, and sometimes multiple views convey the meaning together but do not make sense separately. In these cases, the views can be combined to allow Talkback user to quickly navigate entire view, rather than having to skip through multiple different elements.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/microsoft-mobile-engineering/android-accessibility-resolving-common-talkback-issues-3c45076bcdf6">Visit Now</a></p>