Welcome everyone I'm Ricky from tech talk and in today's video we're going to
be having a look at the accessibility features and options that are available
on the moto g8 power edition so as you saw during my
setup phase there were some accessibility options there which are
always great to see there's even a couple even before you actually dive
into the settings that's thanks to a volume key shortcut option
so what i'm going to do is make sure the volume is turned up here
and what you need to do is press both the volume up and down keys together
at the same time
you'll get this message pop up and we're going to allow shortcuts
so now what i need to do is just press that again this is called a volume key
shortcut talk back on talkback is a screen reader
primarily for people with blindness and low vision
it allows interaction with the device using spoken feedback
talkback tutorial so we have a tutorial video here but we're actually going to
go home what i'm going to do is just bring up
the volume home screen one of two time and weather actions remove move
item resize double tap and hold to long press
so what it does is talk back everything to you that's on your device
so i can highlight applications phone messages assistant
chrome camera folder google app
motorola software update notification system update available
1350. so it will navigate and narrate everything to me when i touch and
highlight so if i want to make an action come true
so tap once home button double tap and then that will happen so if we show
all of our applications button double tap double tap to activate
double tap and hold to long press okay android accessibility suite
accessibility tutorial in list nine items actions
home screen one of two so it tells me everything it's so important to see this
option on here for people that do have low vision and
also those that have no vision at all this could actually allow them to use
their smartphone which is amazing this works through system wide wherever
you go app list i can scroll up and down with two
fingers and suggestions a pitch sound which is great
but let's go back home home and toggle that off
so that was talk back there which is a volume key shortcut and you can actually
change the shortcut depending on you but that works straight out of
the box it's preset to that one so let's delve in
and look at the other accessibility options and settings you can change on
this device so swipe up you can either search for
accessibility up here at the top or you're going to look for settings
which is a gear icon here tap on gear as you'll notice i'm already
using a dark theme to make it easier for me to read
my device scroll all the way down to the bottom as we've done
and it's six from bottom one two three four five
six it's actually seven from bottom so you click on the seventh one which is
accessibility and it's a purple icon with a figure with its arms and legs
stretched out and you could also ask google assistant
to bring you into this menu if you so wanted to as well so inside
here we've got the volume key shortcut as i mentioned
and it's actually set to talk back but look at all these other options you can
set it to so you have color inversion you have
color correction talkback you've got accessibility menu select
speak switch access down here which is great
different options to actually use there you can delve in and go through the
settings more we also then have another option here which is called select to
speak which is a little bit different i'm just going to toggle this on so once
toggled on you're going to notice you've got an
accessibility figure down here at the bottom right hand corner
and you will need to have the three capacitive touch buttons on
to use these settings so don't use gesture controls
once on tap this icon and then tap an area
when select to speak is on you can tap specific items on your screen to hear
them read aloud or i can actually stop this here and i
can just tap and it'll read from the top navigate up select to speak use service
on settings when select to speak is on you can tap specific items on your
screen to hear them read aloud you can see there we could skip
paragraphs and move on to the next section
really great option to see here and this works throughout your device
as well so you can toggle that on or off there but it's really nice to see
these options on here underneath that we then have talk back
as we've gone through already and as you could see this narrates throughout your
device wherever you are reading back anything that is
highlighted on the screen or you highlight within that green box
it will take some time to get used to but you can go into settings here
you can even go into that tutorial again and learn the different options
and the different gestures to use talkback so really good
to see that option inside here we have then text to speech
output this is where you can change your speech rate and your pitch
so we can sort of play around this is an example of speech synthesis in english
so it makes it really high pitched speech could be a little bit faster
which some people will get used to but it just depends on you
underneath that we then have font size so set to the largest font size and for
me it's okay i wish it was a little bit larger but
this is the largest font size it has to offer
underneath that we then have display size
and you can change and adjust the display size here so if we go up
one maybe so a little bit larger has some presets to show you
and this will actually help them coming back to the menu and i can easily read
through the menu underneath that we have then dark themes
you can toggle this off and you can see the difference there
but i actually really do like this it makes it so much easier for me to use
my device underneath that is another great option for those with sight loss
and that's magnification so you can magnify with triple tap or
magnify with shortcuts toggle one once toggled on one two three
three quick taps of single finger you can then pinch in you
can then navigate rounds and one two three to come back
and this will work wherever you are on your device no matter applications
are open if you're in settings if you're in the home screen it just works
there's also another option here so one two three hold on your third
it will remember the magnification level zoom you previously used
and you can fly around with one finger as soon as you're done lift off
and it'll unmagnify which i think is a really good option
you have magnifier shortcuts so toggle this on as you'll notice we've got our
accessible figure down here at the bottom tap on
this tap on the display and it zooms in you can also pinch to zoom use two
fingers to drag around tap and it will return to its default
another great option to see there and i'm really pleased to see magnification
on here so coming up underneath is color
correction so for any of those with color correction we can change and
adjust these to help when using your device which i think is
really helpful you also have color inversions the coloring version will
take it out of dark theme but will obviously invert the colors
wherever you go so it sort of inverts all the colors so
just be careful with this one but it does help those that need that
help so i'm going to just toggle that one
back off and it remembered that i was in the dark thing which is really nice
we have a large mouse cursor so you can use a mouse cursor with your device if
you so want to you can remove animation so any flashes
or sort of just use your device as standard
you can remove the animations there really nice options to see i think that
is accessibility menu so toggle one and we're gonna hit allow
and again we're gonna be greeted with our accessibility figure down here at
the bottom right hand corner tap on this and now
we've got a whole list of different options to choose from
making it easy to use when you're at home you can tap this and it will appear
anywhere really nice and really simple to use as
well during all this time if you do have any
questions or queries though please leave a comment down below and
i'm more than happy to help i think this is one of my favorite options to see on
smartphones now and that's switch access so if we allow this it's going to go
into a setup phase you can either use a usb switch or a bluetooth switch
this is where you use different switches and different controls with your
smartphone to get the most out of it for those that
can't use their fingers or their hands there's other ways of narrating around
your device it means that the devices are accessible
for everyone which i really do like to see if we come
back here and jump into settings it's amazing to see the amount of settings
you can change adjust and tweak this device to become
your own and it's really thanks to google adding
these options inside here i really highly recommend switch access there
you have dwell timing this helps with input and the amount of time it takes to
do something that's really handy there you've got
your power button can end cool so your power button is just
underneath your volume controls and there was a textual difference
between them which was really nice to see
you have auto screen rotate so depending on the application you're using
should work in menus yes it just flips around for me
which is really nice i can just toggle this back around
and it comes back around for me you have touch and hold delay this is for
dexterity and interaction with your device so some people might need it a
little bit longer underneath that we have a new option
that's quite new to android which is time to take action
so if we tap on here this is more when you get a notification
it's set to default but actually you can set it to 10 seconds you can set it all
the way up to two minutes to actually see your notification and
take action if you want to a really good option there and obviously
notifications come in very quickly and some people
will need extra time to see what they are and potentially
before they go missing so really good option there you have vibrate and haptic
strength so you can change the options inside here for you if you want to so
it's really nice to see they're actually bringing a lot more of the settings
together moving into hearing now we have mono
audio you have the audio balance to the left
or the right of the device depending which is preferred to you and you have
caption preference so toggle this on so once toggled on
you've got your language you can choose your different languages
you've also got text size and you've got caption style so using
captions there for those that are hard of hearing
and then finally at the bottom we've got high contrast text so tag one just makes
it a little bit bolder and gets rid of the colors
so if you notice into colors here turns white making it easier to read which is
really nice amount of options in there then finally at the bottom you've got
high contrast text so once toggled on the text that was blue is now white
making it a little bit easier to use but it's really nice to see the mounted
settings that are in the accessibility section here on the moto g8 power
they also hide some in display so let's go into display
so we've got our brightness level you've got your night light which will
automatically lower that damaging blue light when you're looking at a
smartphone at nighttime so i highly recommend you put that on
you've got adaptive brightness this is where it will automatically change
depending on the light source around you and that's measuring why mine's changing
quite a bit you have peak display so this is where you can sort of
peek at your notifications if you want to
really nice little option there you have wallpaper
clicking in advanced we've got then the dark theme
you've got screen time out so i've set mine to
30 minutes normally just so then it doesn't dark out
auto screen rotate colors as well you can choose different color palettes
depending on your choice we've got font size again display size
screen saver lock screen display and you have other
options inside here for the settings which is fantastic to see but
going home i'm really pleased with the amount of accessibility options and
settings that this device has to offer i think it is amazing to see that these
settings are still always improving they're always adding new ones and
there's always something new to learn if you are left with any questions or
queries about the moto g8 power regarding accessibility or
anything else please feel free to leave a comment down below and i'll be more
than happy to help you out thanks always watching please give the
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