talkback reads capital letters as a word, it should read separate

Question

like "US" it is a acronym of United States. android talkback reads it as a word like "us" but it should read separate like U S.

Please help, is there any other speech voices that read it separately or any other settings in accessibility. please suggest.

Answer 1

The behavior your point out is necessary. Android uses all capital letters for some standard controls. For example, TabWidgets. All the letters in a TabWidget will be capitalized automatically. Would you want the tabs "TAB1", "TAB2"... to read out 'T A B 1'... of course not. There is however, a solution, for your circumstance.

You can provide a content description for items that have text. The content description will override the text when available. I would recommend the following.

Text: The USA is cool!

Content Description: The U S A is cool!

Recommended ContDesc: The United States of America is cool! (Do the acronym expansion for them, TalkBack actually reads this faster than U S A!)

Answer 2

Adding period after each capital letter helps talkback feature to read it as Abbreviations, with all capital letters separated out. I used android:text="US" to display without bullets, but added android:contentDescription="U.S." so that talkback read it separately.

Answer 3

Trying adding period after U as U.S or add an aria-label attribute as aria-label="U.S"/aria-label="United States"