


Consider using Accessibility Scanner for Android for manual testing of your app on-device.


Move accessibility focus to the editable item.Check whether TalkBack's spoken description of the empty editable item contains a label, and whether that descriptive label matches any visual labels in the app.In the app, move accessibility focus to the empty editable item.To manually verify that an app contains correctly labeled editable items: When a user navigates at a lower granularity, such as character by character, the screen reader speaks the entered text, or the hint when empty. If a user has entered text in the editable field, the screen reader speaks the text in addition to the descriptive label.If the editable field is empty, it has a descriptive label that the screen reader speaks.When users navigate to editable items with a screen reader, a well-implemented user interface has these elements: Tip: TextInputLayout in the Android Design Support Library provides an easy way to manage an EditText and an associated text label, and works well with Android's accessibility services.ĭefining an android:contentDescription on any EditText or editable TextView may interfere with an accessibility service's ability to describe, navigate, and interact with text that a user enters within the item.
