Accessibility Apps on Android – Common Questions and Troubleshooting

Using Android’s accessibility features and apps for the low vision, partially blind, blind, visually impaired, hard of hearing, deaf, and hearing impaired. Can blind, deaf people and visually impaired use Android?

The hard of hearing and hearing impaired people can improve their communication using the speech-to-text Live Transcribe app. People with visual or hearing impairments can use Android touchscreen phones and devices with these accessibility apps installed and enabled.

Android’s accessibility features have features such as TalkBack, Voice access, Magnification, Font and image size, Volume amplifier, Braille keyboard, and the Live Transcribe speech-to-text tool.

These all make your Android device more accessible for those of us with vision or hearing impairments.