Talkback attaches itself to your activity slightly later in the activity cycle. The problem is more likely the point at which your attempting to do this. All you should need to do is this: ndAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_FOCUSED) You are using the correct function calls. You are, likely, actually making your app MORE inaccessible by doing this. It is a violation of all sorts of WCAG 2.0 regulations, including 3.2.1 and 3.2.3, regarding predictable navigation and context changes respectively. MyButton.performAccessibilityAction(64, null) // Equivalent to ACTION_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUSĪccessibilityManager manager = (AccessibilityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE) ĪccessibilityEvent e = AccessibilityEvent.obtain() Į.setEventType(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUSED) Į.getText().add('another accessibility test') ĭISCLAIMER: Forcing focus on Activity load to be anywhere but at the top bar is always (okay, always should almost never be said), but really, just don't do it. MyButton.announceForAccessibility('accessibility test') ndAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED) ndAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_FOCUSED) I've also tried: ndAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUSED) RequestFocus(), it seems, is only requesting input focus and has nothing to do with accessibility focus.

What I've tried so far: tFocusable(true) When TalkBack is enabled, is there any way to set the accessibility focus manual to a specific view? For instance, when my Activity is started I want TalkBack to automatically focus on a certain Button (yellow frame around the view) and read its content description.

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