Accessibility features, About your phone's accessibility features, Talkback – Huawei Mate 8 User Manual

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Accessibility features

About your phone's accessibility features

Accessibility features make it easier for users with impaired vision or hearing to use their

phone.

TalkBack

Enabling or disabling TalkBack

TalkBack is an accessibility feature designed for visually impaired users. It provides

audible prompts to help you operate your phone. Once it is enabled, your phone will issue

audible prompts for all content that you touch, select, or enable. Please enable with

caution.

TalkBack's audible prompts are not available for all languages.

1

Open

Settings.

2

Touch Advanced settings

>

Accessibility

>

TalkBack.

3

Turn on the TalkBack switch, and then touch OK to enable TalkBack. The audible

tutorial will be started automatically when you enable TalkBack for the first time. If

you need to play the tutorial again, touch

to access the settings, and then select

the tutorial.

4

Touch

, and then select Explore by touch. Your phone will not issue audible

prompts for the content that you touch unless you turn on Explore by touch.

Using TalkBack to control your phone

After you have enabled TalkBack, you can use gestures to:

Browse the screen: Use two fingers to swipe on the screen (instead of one). Swipe up

or down with two fingers to scroll through menu lists. Swipe left or right to move

between screens.

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