The Android Accessibility team announced the Live Transcribe app for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. The app is currently being tested on the Play Store and will be pushed to all Pixel 3 users in the next update.
New Google Smart Displays Add Accessibility with Colour Inversion, Captions and TalkBack
If you are thinking about getting Google’s Home Hub, you may be wondering whether that gadget — like many others in your life — offers any accessibility settings for people with disabilities. The answer is yes.
Google Launches Voice Access to Help Users with Limited Mobility
Google just introduced a new Android app to better enable people with limited mobility to use their phones. The app offers people a hands-free way to control their apps with voice commands.
Go Search App Now Reads the Web Out Loud
Google has launched a new feature for its lightweight Go search app: text-to-speech reading for websites.
Montreal Students Develop VisAbility to Guide Visually Impaired
Two teens from Montreal have developed VisAbility, a cane and cap that helps visually impaired people have a better sense of their surroundings and detect approaching objects.
Google Developing Hearing Aid Support for Android
Android fragmentation has made it difficult for bluetooth hearing aid manufacturers to provide support to Android devices. Now Google is working to bring native hearing aid support for streaming on Android.
Update Changes Google Assistant’s Voice Using Colours
Now that Google Assistant has 8 english voices to choose from, the company is rolling out a colorful update that gives US users a new interface for changing Assistant’s voice. According to Google, You just select a color associated with a random voice.
Google Finally Launches An Official Podcast App
Google finally launched an official podcast app on June 19. Android’s long been in need of a first-party solution for downloading and listening to podcasts, and now that that solution is here, so was it worth the wait?
TalkBack App Renamed to Android Accessibility Suite in Recent Update
Google has renamed the TalkBack app to the Android Accessibility Suite. TalkBack provides spoken feedback for text or images on a screen so that blind or low vision users can navigate their devices.
CBT Live! at Google I/O ’18: Accessibility for AR and VR
In this session, Google covers ways to make Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality more accessible to more users.
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