Android TalkBack: Basics

Douglas: Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today, we are gonna check out how to use some of our beginning TalkBack gestures. Now, for those of you that might not know, TalkBack is our Android screen reading software and a screen reader gives a person with a visual impairment the ability to totally use their device and it does this by speaking the items, or the information that's here on our screen. And I tell you, that really is pretty fantastic.

Now, by learning some basic TalkBack gestures, we will soon be moving through our device with ease. Okay, it will be easiest to learn our gestures as we explore the orientation of our screen. Now, our interface, of course, is a piece of glass and we call this piece of glass our home screen.

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