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inga
inga

Reputation: 3214

How can I make TalkBack ignore android:text element?

I am improving the accessibility for visually impaired in my android app. I have the following TextView in a popover.xml file in my Android project.

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="12dp"
    android:text="@string/pass_code"/>

Whenever I test the app with TalkBack, the app speaks back the string in android:text but in this case I don't want it to be spoken at all because this is a popover window so I would rather want it to be spoken as soon as the window pops over. So I've got android:contentDescription="@string/pass_code" in my root LinearLayout which speaks out the same string.

I've tried to set android:contentDescription="@null" and I've also tried adding tools:ignore="ContentDescription" but neither of them worked. The element in android:text is always spoken. How can I change the TextView so TalkBack will ignore the android:text element?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5680

Answers (1)

alanv
alanv

Reputation: 24114

You can hide a view from accessibility services by setting android:importantForAccessibility="no" in your layout XML. See the developer docs for View.setImportantForAccessibility(int) for more details.

Upvotes: 20

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