By the way, let me praise Raccoon, an Android app for Friendica and Mastodon, for being forward thinking about accessibility.

Their contributor pvagner is proficient with mobile accessibility. After I got clear on accessibility actions, I ran through Raccoon with TalkBack and then external Bluetooth keyboard, and had no trouble posting to or reading threads.

Thanks for not excluding disabled users!

#Accessibility #A11y #TalkBack #AndroidA11y #Disability @raccoonforfriendicaapp

When listening to an ebook with TalkBack, if I get a regular notification, the ebook resumes after the notification.

But if I get a charging notification, the reading does not resume. Sometimes when my phone is on the charger, it will announce the charging level at random times, and TalkBack just stops.

Does anyone have any experience with disabling charging notifications or getting the screen reader to resume automatically?

#TalkBack #Android #AndroidAccessibility #AndroidA11y

https://bsky.app/profile/eevis.codes/post/3lb74y7f32223

This is such an easy win with Compose. We, like most places, use a custom multi preview annotation. One of those multi previews is with scaled font.
It just puts the UI right in front of developers as they're working on it, so there's no "forgetting" to test it.

https://github.com/guardian/source-apps/blob/318026f05dd00201a50c6921af4e37adc5324106/android/source/src/main/kotlin/com/gu/source/utils/PreviewAnnotations.kt#L35

#a11y #AndroidA11y

Eevis Panula (@eevis.codes)

This 💯 Another learning opportunity is to change your font size to the biggest one (and maybe do that to your display size too). So many apps don't work correctly when the font size is bigger than the default. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social

Did you know that Fedilab, a Fediverse client for Android, has a translation button? It works on post content and also image alt text!

This example image comes from the German Aerospace Center at @dlr_next .

@Fedilab #Fedilab #AltText #AlternativeText #a11y #Accessibility #Translation #Translate #Language #Mastodon #Pleroma #Friendica #Pixelfed #Android #AndroidA11y #TalkBack #ScreenReader

RedReader, Reddit client for Android, granted non-commercial accessibility exemption

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/145du4j/update_4_redreader_granted_noncommercial/

#a11y #Android #Reddit #Lemmy #AndroidA11y

Update 4: RedReader granted non-commercial accessibility exemption

Hello everyone, after a few days of discussions with Reddit I finally have an update to share on the current situation. It has been agreed that...

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Thanks to the makers of #Fedilab for your continued work towards #accessibility on #Android.

The latest version of the app has an setting to require alternate text before making a post. A great reminder for users sharing images on Mastodon, Pixelfed, or Friendica servers.

I hope all Fedilab users turn the setting on, so everyone can benefit from your pictures!

#AndroidA11y #A11y #AltText #Blind #LowVision @apps