About accessibility features on your device
Your device comes with several well-established accessibility aids for people with disabilities.
For more information on the following features, visit
Android Accessibility Help
.
• Magnification settings allow you to zoom in or zoom out to increase or decrease the display magnification.
• Google
™
Talkback provides audible output based on the visual information displayed on your screen.
• Switch Access allows you to navigate screens on your smartphone using external switches.
• Braille support is available using BrailleBack.
• Font customization allows you to choose small, medium, large, or huge sizes.
• Screen Reader technology lets you select the text-to-speech application that you prefer to use (if you have downloaded
an alternate text-to-speech engine on Google Play
™
).
• Google Now
™
voice assistant answers questions, makes recommendations, and performs actions.
• Voice dictation allows you to dictate text instead of typing.
• Closed or open captioned multimedia content is available. Personalize your closed caption settings by adjusting
character size, color, opacity, or font.
• Display features, such as color inversion and color correction are applied across all applications.
• The touch & hold delay feature lets you increase the length of time for touch responses on the screen.
• Third party keyboards are supported.
• The ability to speak your passwords is included.
• An accessibility shortcut is available that you can use to quickly change your accessibility settings.
• Teletypewriter (TTY) support allows you to connect to a TTY device to make and receive calls from TTY devices.
For more information on the following features, visit
BlackBerry Accessibility
.
• Hearing aid compatibility is available for certain BlackBerry smartphone models. Compatibility ratings are available
online at
BlackBerry Accessibility
.
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• The BlackBerry Keyboard lets you type more efficiently with contextual autocorrection, next-word prediction, shortcuts,
and personalized learning that gets to know the way you type. Your device gives you the option of using the touch
screen keyboard, or the slide-out keyboard with tactilely discernible keys.
• Keyboard shortcuts and Speed dial allow you to assign actions and phone numbers to specific keys.
• Alerts and notifications can be customized using tone, vibration, onscreen alerts, or the LED indicator.
• An integrated hands-free speakerphone is available, or you can connect your device to a hands-free headset or
Bluetooth enabled headset.