Android Accessibility Implementation in /e/OS

General

To learn about accessibility on /e/OS devices, go to Android Accessibility. You may notice the URL contains “Google”: it’s because the Android Open Source Project is documented by them. Rest assured all the accessibility features you’ll find in /e/OS are deGoogled and Open Source.

• Get started

• Use a screen reader

• Change your display
  • Use magnification on your screen
  • Use Page Zoom in Browser
  • Use a braille display
  • Interaction controls
  • Audio & captions
  • Turn on Talkback
  • Turn off TalkBack
  • Update Android accessibility apps: when an update is available for an accessibility app, it’s part of our monthly updates. So make sure to update your device to every new /e/OS version appearing in the Updater.

Live caption

As Android’s native live caption solution is based on a Google solution, we implemented our own solution, based on VOSK. When enabled this solution captures all system audio and display the corresponding text on screen so you can know what the audio/video says.

At the moment it does not work with /e/OS Browser but we’re working on finding a solution. It’s possible it does not work on apps you installed yourself: in this case faites-le nous savoir, and we’ll do our best to solve it.