by dbadmin | Dec 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Android 16, Google, News
TL;DR Fast Pair finally works with Bluetooth LE Audio hearing aids, starting with Demant models. For years, pairing hearing aids to an Android phone has been a minor headache. That changes today, as part of the latest updates Google’s making available for its...
by dbadmin | Dec 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Gboard, Google, Google Gemini, News
TL;DR Google is upgrading its TalkBack accessibility system with new Gemini-powered voice editing. Users will be able to two-finger double-tap in Gboard to quickly get started. Gemini will allow them to edit text input using natural language requests. Smartphones are...
by dbadmin | Sep 26, 2025 | Accessibility, Android Canary, News
TL;DR Google is adding a new “reduce blur effects” toggle to address readability issues caused by its new Material 3 Expressive design. This new accessibility setting, available in the 2509 Android Canary build, disables background blur system-wide to improve text...
by dbadmin | May 15, 2025 | Accessibility, Google, News
Google’s celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day with some new functionality for Expressive Captions, TalkBack, and more. TalkBack is gaining support for follow-up questions, letting users ask things like what color objects are. Chrome also gets some handy...
by dbadmin | Dec 5, 2024 | Accessibility, AI, Google, News
Google is enhancing Live Caption with Expressive Captions on Android. Expressive Captions use AI to recognize tone, volume, and ambient sounds and convey them with stylized captions and labels. The feature is available in the US for English on devices running Android...
by dbadmin | Nov 7, 2024 | Accessibility, Android 15, Authority Insights, Google, News
Google is working on a feature that shows a notification when you dismiss the floating button that opens the accessibility menu. Tapping this notification will bring back the floating accessibility button. This feature isn’t live yet, but Google added code for it in...
