How to make spannable text clickable with Accessibility mode on

Question

I have a problem statement where i need to run my application with Accessibility setting on, to have talk back feedback, but the problem here is when i click on a TextView which have Spannable link in it, then it reads the full text but dose not allow me to click on that Spannable text separately while disabling the accessibility allows to make string multi spannable or link clickable.

here is my code to make String clickable :

SpannableString ss = new SpannableString("Android is a Software stack");
ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View textView) {
        startActivity(new Intent(MyActivity.this, NextActivity.class));
    }
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
            super.updateDrawState(ds);
            ds.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
};
ss.setSpan(clickableSpan, 22, 27, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.hello);
textView.setText(ss);
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

Answer 1

If you are using Android X library you should be able to handle accessibility and clickable spannable strings by:

ViewCompat.enableAccessibleClickableSpanSupport(yourView);

Also make sure you have the latest dependency:

com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0

It should work back to API 19.

Note: To enable Android X library go to your gradle.properties and add these lines:

android.useAndroidX = true
android.enableJetifier = true