Help with text reader I'm visually impaired

Lemon table

New member
Hi I have a visual impairment from a brain injury so I use the text reader with all apps that support it there are some apps where I have to swipe on the screen for the screen reader button to appear and I was just wondering if I could maybe set a button to appear over my screen where I could just press it and it would activate the screen reader so I could use it over any app
 

Lemon table

New member
I've managed to make a button that lays over my other apps but kind of struggling to find a way to make it activate my screen reader
 

Jacob L

Moderator (Lawsonator)
You can use the UI interaction action to swipe/gesture. You'll need to know the coordinates. For the corroborates, You'll need to open developer options. To do this go to Settings then about device then tap build number 7 times. It may need more than 7 times if you are using Talkback, just keep going until the toast message says "you are a developer'. Now go to Settings then scroll down to developer options and find pointer Location. You'll maybe need somebody to read the coordinates. They are difficult to read. These coordinates are needed for the UI interaction action to work
 

420

Active member
i found a website that mentions an adb command to enable/disable talkback: https://gist.github.com/mrk-han/67a98616e43f86f8482c5ee6dd3faabe, i don't have a clue how we would make it work though, i tried to paste it into a shell script action and ran it, but i'm getting errors only, maybe it needs root? i don't know enough about this.

i also scrolled through all of the "system setting" action options, but i was not able to find it there..

another idea i had was to have macrodroid long press the volume up/down buttons, to enable/disable talkback, but sadly there is no such option..

hopefully someone can help you further!
 
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