Making Non-Text Elements Readable by TalkBack

With the New Crime button selected, double-tap anywhere on the screen to launch the crime details screen.

Adding content descriptions

On the crime details screen, press the image capture button to give it accessibility focus (Figure 18.8). TalkBack announces, “Unlabeled button. Double-tap to activate.” (You may get slightly different results depending on the version of Android you are using.)

Figure 18.8  Image capture button selected

Image capture button selected

The camera button does not display any text, so TalkBack describes the button as well as it can. While this is TalkBack’s best effort, the ...

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