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Android accessibility identify heading

I have the latest version of Talkback and its announcing "My Top level Text Heading". Android native behaviour is adding "Heading" for my top level elements. I could not find a way to switch ON/OFF heading announcement. Is there an API to control its behaviour. In the previous version of Talkback versions it was not announcing "Heading" by itself.

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Shivam Avatar asked Oct 24 '16 05:10

Shivam


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add a simple method on API 19+:

ViewCompat.setAccessibilityHeading(headingView, false);

https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/view/ViewCompat#setAccessibilityHeading(android.view.View,%20boolean)

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nbystndr Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 01:10

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