Android TalkBack: TalkBack Basics

Hi, my name is Ricky Enger, and today we're gonna get started with the Talkback screen reader just by learning a couple of the gestures that we're gonna be using pretty much all the time to do things on our phone. In the first workshop in this series, we learned about turning Talkback on and off. So go ahead and check out that workshop if you're wondering how to do that. We're using a Google Pixel phone for our workshop here, but what we're learning should be pretty much the same on other Android phones as well. If things don't work the way you expect, or if you get stuck and just need to talk things through, Hadley's here to do that with you. So if you scroll down the workshop page, you'll find some cool resources, plus there's info on how to contact us if you need to.

All right, so we've got Talkback on now. What do we do next? There's this smooth piece of glass that we need to explore somehow. Well, let's start just by touching the phone with one finger.

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