{"id":80095,"date":"2022-04-14T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80095"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:08:32","slug":"google-talkback-an-overview-of-androids-free-screen-reader-boia-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/14\/google-talkback-an-overview-of-androids-free-screen-reader-boia-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Google TalkBack: An Overview of Android&#8217;s Free Screen Reader [boia.org]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\/google-talkback-an-overview-of-androids-free-screen-reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google TalkBack: An Overview of Android&#8217;s Free Screen Reader<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from boia.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">TalkBack is Google&#8217;s free screen reader for Android devices. The software responds to familiar touch and swipe commands, allowing users to interact with websites and apps. When activated, TalkBack announces where the user\u2019s focus is located, enabling people to control their phones, tablets, and other Android devices without using visual cues. In certain apps, users can input other touch and voice commands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As part of our series of articles on assistive technologies, we\u2019ll review some of TalkBack\u2019s unique features \u2014 and provide tips for using the software to evaluate mobile accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google TalkBack: An Overview of Android&#8217;s Free Screen Reader &#8212; from boia.org Excerpt: TalkBack is Google&#8217;s free screen reader for Android devices. The software responds to familiar touch and swipe commands, allowing users to interact with websites and apps. When activated, TalkBack announces where the user\u2019s focus is located, enabling people to control their phones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,63,382,309,66,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-google","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-platforms","category-student-related","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80120,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80095\/revisions\/80120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}