Using Macrodroid to control TalkBack Screen Reader Actions

[britechguy]

Has anyone ever done this?

I already understand the concepts of trigger, action, and constraint, but I have no idea at all how one would issue a command/gesture with TalkBack running that would perform a TalkBack action such as "Say All."

Assistance on this front would be appreciated.

If, by some chance, I have posted to the incorrect forum I ask for forgiveness and that the moderator move this where it belongs. I just couldn't quite decide where it belonged, and thought "Help and Troubleshooting" would be a good initial guess.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

I don't have much experience with TalkBack I'm afraid, so I'm not sure I fully understand your question. Can you please provide more context of exactly what you are trying to achieve.

 

[britechguy]

Thanks for the reply.

I know a number of people who use TalkBack who have issues with a specific gesture (or two) where they'd like to be able to do something like shake the phone in order to issue the, say, "Say All," gesture to TalkBack, or just to tell TalkBack to do a Say All action however that might be accomplished.

I already understand the idea of triggers and constraints, it's just the "how do I communicate directly with TalkBack" part to tell it to do something where I'm stuck.

I've used Macrodroid to create a "Shake to Answer" action for those who cannot easily target the answer button. And this is similar in concept where I'd like for them to be able to have some specific, easy trigger to tell the screen reader to perform a specific action that's typically done using a gesture they just can't seem to get to work.