| Version |
Release date |
Summary |
|---|
| 9.1 |
February 2021[8] |
New multi-finger gestures in a new context menu which can be used for activities such as reading, voice commands, support for Spanish and Arabic in the Braille keyboard, as well as a reorganization to the settings menu of TalkBack.[9] |
| 8.2 |
April 2020 |
Introduced a new Braille keyboard which uses six large buttons in screen in order to allow visually impaired users to type in a manner that may be more familiar to them.[10] |
| 7.3 |
March 2019 |
Added a screen search function to find text on screen in a more accessible manner and made changes to the continuous reading functionality of TalkBack by auto-scrolling pages and adding new navigation options.[11] |
| 7.2 |
November 2018 |
Improved controls and added fast forward and rewind functionality to the screen reader.[12] |
| 6.2 |
June 2018 |
Improved Android TV controls and Focus Management. This release came with the rebranding of TalkBack from an independent application into a part of the new Android Accessibility Suite, which includes TalkBack and a few other accessibility tools.[4] |
| 6.1 |
Early 2018 |
Added the ability for the active text to speech language to be changed through gestures, as well as fixing a variety of bugs such as making TalkBack not speak upon receiving a phone call until the user had touched the screen.[13] |
| 5.2 |
April 2017 |
Added a verbosity setting for speech, added audible feedback for zooming in and out, the ability to hear password character count in Chrome, as well as a variety of other fixes and improvements.[14] |
| 4.0 |
October 2011 |
Added TalkBack to Android system |
