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Android Day One: How do I go home?
The phone arrives, and I unbox and turn it on.
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge I could never use Android as a primary, one of the reasons being that TalkBack is not as smooth when reaching the bottom of an app or website screen and on iPhone, VoiceOver will automatically move focus to the next item and the screen will follow the cursor. Nope, TalkBack literally has to scroll the screen before focusing on the next item, and its infuriating as you have to wait for about a second, slightly less, but never the less you have to wait for the dink dink sounds to stop before it highlights the next thing and reads it. So more often than not, back when I did have a Pixel as my primary, I would instinctively use explore by touch and manually scroll the screen with the 2 finger gesture. Oh an in some cases, the auto scrolling BS TalkBack does would sometimes miss a few things and jump further down than it needs to, meaning if you're not used to this behavior you'll miss some stuff.
As for TTS voices, since Eloquence most likely won't work on the Pixel, you could try the DECtalk for Android.
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@alexchapman I tried espeak in hopes it would make talk back less laggy. It did not.
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge Oh oof. That is one of the most enfuriating things I wish Google would fix with TalkBack, but they won't. I don't know what they've updated for TalkBack 16 or the Android 16 beta in terms of this stuff, but I doubt they've suddenly fixed these issues unfortunately.
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@alexchapman Tomorrow I’m going to investigate third party screen readers. There has to be a way to make this better.
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge Prudence is a bit better, but its not for everyone, neither is CSR/Jishuo or whatever its called.
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@alexchapman I’m looking at csr. But it looks like it doesn’t support talk back actions?
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge I haven't used CSR in years, so I wouldn't know. Prudence has actions support but if you want a gesture, I think you manually have to set that in Prudence settings.
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@alexchapman Is prudence better? It looks less feature complete?
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge Its feature complete, but it takes some getting used to.
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@alexchapman Does it have fewer bugs than ranger legend? Lol
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Alex Chapman @alexchapman@tweesecake.social
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@fastfinge lmao PSR has been developed over years, whereas Ranger Legened came out last year, so I'd assume PSR has less bugs.
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@alexchapman One would hope. All there games are major bug fests. That’s why I decided to try csr first.
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