welcome everyone I'm Ricky from Tech Talk and today we're taking a look at
the accessibility settings and options that we're gonna find on the Google
pixel 3a XL and the Google pixel 3ei so both the settings are going to be
exactly the same right across the board even if we have the Google pixel 3 & 3
XL here they're gonna be exactly the same might be a few added bonuses but
let's go through together so we're gonna mainly look at the accessibility
settings on the Google pixel 3/8 XL as it's easier for me to read the settings
off that device but I'm gonna keep the Google pixel 3/8 here so we can jump in
and have a look at the settings on there if we so need to so first of all there
is a volume key shortcut option which means that you can use talkback right
from the beginning which is really helpful talking about beginning when you
first set up your device you have accessibility options right at the
beginning which is really good to see from Google as they are the main
operators of Android and give us Android fire devices they always make sure the
accessibility settings are there and I'm really glad that they put these options
in here to set up our device making it easier for us to use no matter our
ability so the volume key shortcuts let me show you what that does for you so if
we turn to the side here just underneath that bright orange button there you've
got your two volume controls as so press both of them together
at the same time fix a larger talkback now begins so when you first do this it
will actually take you through to a tutorial and you can learn about
everything about talkback and how to maneuver how to touch and hold and how
to use talkback in best possible features so now talkback is turned on I
can touch and highlight anything on my display here and get any information so
first of all let's find out what the date is Sunday June 23rd we see what the
weather is partly cloudy 23 degrees Celsius so it's nice and
sunny finally in England we've actually reached our summer and you can go
through your applications here messages Play Store Chrome camera actions
shortcuts and notifications remove move item double tap to activate double tap
and hold to long press it gives you options so if you want to see all of
your applications and open the apps drill here Google uses gesture controls
and what you need to do for this is actually use two fingers and swipe up
apps list Android accessibility
sweet accessibility tutorial in lists for items there we go
so as told us what's in our background app application and then when you swipe
up and down here you're gonna get pitch time that knows where you are which is a
really good option here talkback is a great feature that will narrate
everything for you even in your taskbar here bring your vibrate y53 bars the
battery 69% I could also touch and go through my notifications then also we do
have a time up here 3:00 p.m. so it is great it will talk back everything to
you and a great feature and to power this off just press and hold them volume
keys again for a couple of seconds there we go talkback is now on so it's all
back is a great feature and I'm really pleased to see the following key
shortcut option is here on the Google pixel 3a and of course it's gonna be on
every device from Google so let's go into the settings so swipe up as normal
now gonna come down you're gonna go into the settings option go all the way down
to the bottom and then 6th ROM bottom so if you count up 6 you're gonna get
accessibility it's a purple icon and it does stand out quite well I think it'd
be better either right at the top of whites at the bottom just so we know
exactly where it is at all times so if I click accessibility here we can
then go through the settings options so the first one is the volume key shortcut
option and like I said you can go in here you can change and adjust which
options that you want to use is preset to talkback as that is the main feature
majority of people will need to use to navigate through their device 1 first
setting it up or when they first launched their phone so underneath that
you have select to speak it select to speak is slightly different so if I
toggle this on here and we're gonna hit OK you're gonna get a new icon come up
this isn't your little accessibility man so if I tap the little accessibility man
and then press play 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 there's a really good option here so you can select Pacific
things to read or you can get it to read through the whole of your display again
if using their messages you tap it and it would read through it for you so that
icon will stay here as long as this is turned on so if I actually stop it here
press again and then if I press a Pacific area it will read from that area
so if I read from here then select speak is on you can tap specific items
on your screen to hear them read aloud so it read that main body of text but
didn't actually read what was up here which is a really good option again
really good to see that we have our device so you have text to speech output
so text to speech output can change and adjust the speech rate and the pitch so
we can make it really fast and some people can actually understand that and
so you can I like that actually is fine for me because I use these services and
understand them some people need to change and adjust it depending on their
choice to change their pictures right so really high pitched or using a really
low pitch and you can go really slow the choices are yours and you press reset
and you'll go back to default underneath that we have font size so inside font
size I've set it on the largest I think it could go a bit large I think you're
good push this a little bit larger but it's okay you have a preview here that
you can read but I think if you go a little bit larger I think that you have
display size so in display size here I've got it set on large I can go
largest or I can go all the way down to the smallest as well you don't have to
set it to a massive display you can set it what's best for you so I'm gonna keep
it on large making it easier for me to read and they have previews of
applications and your menu as well so Anthony that you have magnification you
have magnified with triple tap so let's go in here first toggle this on one two
three three quick taps will enlarge your display and then you can pinch all the
way in thanks to a big bright display in the Geo LED panel that's built in here
everything looks rich and very easy to read and really enjoyable to read one
two three three quick taps will bring you back there's also another way so one
two three hold on the third one you can then manipulate and move around your
screen with just one finger but as soon as you lift it up it will zoom back out
for you to the standard size again a really good option to have on here it's
a magnification with button so for turn us on I little accessibility map
reappears here to tap in here and you see the whole box is highlighted and
maybe I want to read what's up here maybe I want to see what's up here like
my battery sixty eight percent that's a really good option to press again you'll
come back and you're back to normal obviously you can talk about on and off
and your little accessibility man will come there underneath that you have
color correction so inside color correction here once toggled on you can
select a different option depending on your eyesight needs and potentially
which colors you find more difficult to use or more easier to use so again you
have a good large map setting some devices only give you two options or one
option but Google have they have three options which is really nice to see
other than the fact you have color inversion so if we toggle this on here
you can see it's totally inverted two colors but obviously when you go home it
will invert them home colors as well so we'll change and adjust all of the
colors so it's a bit different to a dark thing where it makes it black it will
totally invert and colors for you again some people find it easier to use this
you then have a large mouse pointer so you can use a mouse pointer to work
around your device and manipulate your device to press buttons and make actions
come true really pleased to see that on here you then have remove animations if
you don't want to see the animations you can then remove them if they bother you
and it frustrates you you could just remove them we then have accessibility
menu so if we toggle this on you're gonna see our little accessibility man
is back again rest of this here it gives us all of our options inside a little
small menu so if we're actually in our home screen we want to quickly change
something we can that's a really good thing to see that we can just quickly
make a quick adjustment and then carry on with our daily lives so it's all
about making it simple and easy for you to do no matter your ability underneath
that is switch access a switch access gives you the options of using
interaction control systems with your device she find it hard to use your
fingers or your hands to manipulate your way around your device or input certain
things you can add different switches and different interaction controls to
actually work your way through your phone I'm really pleased to see this
option in more and more devices underneath that you have dwell timing
this is quite a new feature this is where it will automatically change the
cursor function so it will automatically make a function come true as soon as you
start or you can change and adjust it here so depends on what you want to do
the power button and the right hand side here that bright orange one will end
your call so you can end your calls with just a power button you have auto screen
rotate so this will rotate some up Asians automatically do this if you want
to rotate your screen you can toggle that on here and use that under the fact
you have touch and hold delay so you've got short medium or long again it all
depends if you have a bit of shake or dexterity and interaction issues
underneath that you have vibration so you can have vibration with the ring and
notification or touch vibration as well when you're using the keyboard which is
quite helpful you get that feedback so underneath is a new feature that we're
sin on one other device I believe it was a Sony Xperia device which is called
live transcribe so what this does is automatically transcribe everything I'm
saying so if we toggle this on here tap then little accessibility man again
so I said accessibility man there we go so it makes it easier for you to use so
this is a really handy tool so I'm going to use this in my daily life and see if
it can help me prepare notes for my new videos that's a really good feature and
something new to see on the accessibility menu and it's nice to see
a slight improvement on certain features underneath that you have sound amplifier
so it's going to help us improve the sounds that we hear around us again
we've got our accessibility man here and for you to use this you need to plug in
headphones again a really nice option to have on here and I'm really pleased to
see a new accessibility option but on to our devices underneath that you have the
ability to use mono audio if you need to use mono audio you also have captions as
well once toggled on you then can change your language your text size or your
caption style so they do have different styles here they have six different
styles to choose from whichever one best suits you and your need then at the
bottom you've got experimental and that's high contrast text so if I toggle
this on you'll see then that the headings were blue but now are black and
a little bit easier to read and this will depend on your choice again and
it's totally up to you so that was all of our accessibility options in the
accessibility menu like I said on the pixel 3a is going to be exactly the same
and you don't have to worry about changing or getting a certain device to
get the best features majority of time the accessibility settings are the same
if it's just a larger screen model or if it is slightly different in a slightly
different way it will be the same settings and I'm really pleased to say
it's exactly the same on this device as what I'm seeing on this device
so if we come back they do have some other settings in the display option so
if we go into display here the first one is your brightness so you can change and
adjust your brightness here depending on your level and how bright you want it I
think that you have night lights so if we go into night liked here and if we're
gonna say turn on you can see it really dimmed down that display so if I pluck
on the menu option here that's a white one compared to the night light option
on the pixel 3/8 XL to the left hand side so it really takes away the harsh
blue lights that could potentially damage your eyes when you're reading
your device later at night and when you should be going to sleep so if I toggle
this off here you can see it's gonna warm up and come back to the normal
natural light and then you can schedule that there as well if you want to
someone that may potentially have an eye sight ability and needs to change it
that's a really good option to show also you have adaptive brightness so this
will depend where you are in your home and at nighttime again it will change
and adjust depending on the light you are using to view your device or if it's
late at night it's going to turn it right down so again it's not harsh
bright light right in your eyes just before you go to bed so if you go into
advanced here another option is colors so you can
change the adjust the colors here so you can have natural boosted or inductive
and that means where it will change again so I'm going to select mine as
neutral underneath you'll see font size display size you then have ambient
display so this is like your always-on display and I like to have that to see
my next occasions and times late at night sometimes it's easier for me to
have and finally one other option down here at the bottom is device theme so
you can have dark light then automatic based on wallpaper if I go dark come
home slide down you'll see it's dark there in my widgets it's dark here so
dark theme does run through your device if I pull up it's dark compared to the
lights option here so you can see how it changes and just depending on the choice
that you have and the amount of settings that are on here is fantastic and I'm
really pleased to see from Google that they do always innovate and bring new
settings like live transcribe sound amplifier these are new settings I've
seen a couple of them on other devices but they are new to the Google pixel
range and also other Android devices I hope to see it soon the talkback for you
and gesture control system works really well because obviously these devices are
mainly based on gesture controls now the actual talkback feature works really
well with them I'm really pleased to see that option so overall I'm really
impressed with the matter settings that Google have put on these devices and
they should be one of the best there is room for improvement as the likes of
Samsung and Apple seem to add a little bit more they go in-depth into extra
different abilities depending on people's choice and they give a bit more
of a choice as well so I'd like to see a bit of an improvement next time round
but I'm always happy to see the sheer amount of settings that are on here now
is really helpful no matter what your ability is you should be okay to use
this device if you have any questions or any queries please drop a comment down
below you know I will be more than happy to always help to answer anything to do
with accessibility if you have any questions or queries about the Google
pixels 3a and three Axl please leave a comment down below you know I'm more
than happy to help thanks always for watching and for me Ricky I'll see you
very soon bye for now