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...
by dbadmin | Sep 3, 2024 | Accessibility, Google Chrome, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is adding read-aloud features to Chrome, letting you read web pages. TalkBack, Android’s screen reader app, is now better at describing images thanks to an upgrade to Gemini AI on supported devices. Google has just...
by dbadmin | Aug 23, 2024 | Accessibility, AI, News
Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Text-to-speech company ElevenLabs has released a reader app that offers text-to-speech support for PDFs, ePub files, articles, and more. The app lets you choose from a variety of AI voices for narration and is free to use....
