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Google updates its accessibility app with navigation gestures

Google offers a great number of accessibility features and services for Android users in Spain. In addition to having applications that update regularly with new functions, like this summer. Now it is the turn of the Android Accessibility Suite to obtain a series of improvements, which are made official for users.

This is version 9.0 of the Accessibility Suite of Android which is being deployed now. In this new version of the application, Google introduces a series of new navigation gestures with which users will be able to have better control of the interface of their phones.

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Google improves its Accessibility suite

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Google is starting to release this new version of the application, where these gestures are introduced. Although these new navigation gestures have been hidden somewhat, since you have to enter the TalkBack developer settings to be able to access them and proceed to their activation on the phone. The steps you have to follow to do this are the following:

Once you have installed this new version of the Android Accessibility suite on your phone, you have to go to the settings of your phone.
Look there for accessibility settings.
Within them you will have to go to TalkBack.
Then enter the TalkBack settings where you will then have these navigation gestures.
Activate those gestures.
Configure the gestures you want to use on your phone.

The app introduces multi-finger gestures, such as multi-finger tapping, swiping on the screen, and more. These new gestures they will allow you to perform a series of actions on the phone (play content or stop them, open a menu, scroll through the interface and more). They are designed to offer users a more comfortable navigation and use of their phones. The new version of the Android Accessibility Suite, with number 9.0, is already being deployed in the Play Store, although it may still take a few hours to arrive in Spain.