hi Ron I'm Ricky from Tech Talk and as some of you may know or might not know
I'm actually register blind so in my reviews I like to really dig in deep to
the accessibility settings on every device to see how well they are prepped
and able to use for all people with a range of disabilities so today we're
going to have a look through the Sony Xperia x8 one compact massive thank you
to Vodafone for sending out this device that's what you need to do is go into
settings first of all to actually find all your accessibility settings here so
if we swipe along tap the Settings icon here scroll all
the way down to the bottom count 1 2 3 & 4
there's accessibility and you have a little green man there so click on
accessibility to start off with you have a accessibility shortcut which is
talkback and I'm gonna go through talkback but you can actually toggle
this on and it says here by clicking the volume up and volume down buttons
together at the same time three times will activate talkback and you can also
do this on the lockscreen ignore the AVG and Sony Xperia services
underneath these will not bother you with accessibility settings so
underneath we have select to speak so if I go in toggle this on have to agree to
terms and conditions as a way so down here now you'll have a little
accessibility icon what you can do then you can highlight
different applications if you want to and that will just highlight and
describe everything you taught then talkback is slightly different as
talkback here if I go into here and toggle this on will actually speech
everything but if I highlight this box
select activate if you turn talkback on accidentally turn it up so it will talk
back everything to you so we can then highlight stuff in our taskbar will talk
back everything to us which i think is a fantastic option here so if you want an
action to happen highlight okay double tap and then this will turn this off for
you so if we come out of here so you have text to speech output so this will
go through like the speed and the pitch so we can say some people actually use
their device that quick you can actually split right down as well
example of speech synthesis in English then you can change the pitch so the
choice is yours there that you can change and adjust that and I think that
it's a great idea here coming up underneath its font size so I have
actually put this to the largest font here for me so a bit too small still you
can have a large font size and also you can have a large display size as well to
find to scroll this up here you can see what it will look like as well they do
have a demo here for you so if I just said its default or you can even make it
smaller next underneath we have magnification
gestures so we can toggle these on you have two different options you have one
two three three quick tap and with two fingers you can move round at your
display and you can do this anywhere on the display one two three and you'll
come back to zoom with this option tap the accessibility's direction and tap
anywhere on the display and then you can then move around then also you can then
tap the accessibility button and just tap with one finger hold around move
around then release then it won't sue min automatically either so you can
leave that on there and use that if you so wish to solo to little added features
on here not a great amount of settings but there are little added ones that I
do like to see so you can have the option of a large mouse cursor you can
use switch access as well so the switches can do different things so if I
go in here you can allow switch access you've got click after mouse pointer
stops moving again this is if you're using a cursor your power button at the
side here can end cool so that's up to you if you choose to do that they have
auto screen rotate so if I turn the device round into landscape mode it Auto
rotates for me and if I go back you'll go into portrait mode a touch and hold
delay that's for people that maybe have a little bit of a shake or little bit
jitter in their hands does help there so you can maybe use your phone a little
bit easier but again I do like to see coming down into sound you have a mono
audio and also you have captions so inside captions here you can set up this
how it will appear and overlay in videos for you so you can understand what's
going on for people with a hearing impairment finally down here at the
bottom you have high contrast text I've already told this on actually toggle it
off you can see it's different some devices called it a bold text on here is
called a high contrast text you have color correction
as well that can be available for reading green then you have color
inversion if it's easier for people to read this way around-i please note that
it will change your whole device so he can go back in simply turn off so you
can work out what the best settings are for you to use maybe it's just a slight
talkback like the switch one where you can just tap it when you need it you can
use the magnification when you need it well you can change this device and it
can use it all the time which i think is a great idea using a speech with this
device it's worked very fine it's got a great processor and great amount of RAM
so it works very well and I'm very impressed with the Sony Xperia compact
Edition here the one thing I do want to say is though it's lacking in a few
settings that you will see it say on the iPhone and the Samsung but they do cost
more and again they are a different brand though show slightly different
settings though so please be aware if you do have any questions or queries
about settings or this device please do drop a comment down below thanks always
watching and I'll see you in my next video bye for now