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  16.   <title>Tips and tricks - Android Accessibility</title> 
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  23. <h1>Tips and Tricks</h1>
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  26.   <div class="nav_back">
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  27.     <a href="customizing.html">Previous: Customizing Your Experience</a>
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  30.     <a href="index.html">Up: Android Accessibility</a>
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  32.   <div class="nav_next">
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  33.     <a href="apps.html">Next: Accessible Apps</a>
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  38. <strong>Default apps</strong>:
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  39. When you install multiple apps that fulfill the same role, such as
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  40. multiple home screens or multiple web browsers, then Android might
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  41. sometimes ask you which app you want to open. For example, when you
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  42. press the Home button, but you have two Home screen apps, it will ask
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  43. you which one you want. There's also a checkbox where you can set that
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  44. app as the default, so it won't ask you again. The other app will
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  45. still be there, but it won't open unless you specifically open it
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  46. yourself. To reset the defaults, just open Settings, Application
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  47. settings, Manage Applications, and click on the application that's the
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  48. default now, and you'll get an option to make it not the default
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  49. anymore.
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  53. <strong>Shortcuts</strong>:
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  54. You can assign Search key + any letter on your keyboard to opening an
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  55. app of your choice. It's in Settings, under the Applications section.
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  59. <strong>Toggle silent mode in the lock screen</strong>:
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  60. When your phone is locked, you use a swipe gesture from left to right to
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  61. unlock it. If you swipe from right to left, you can toggle silent mode
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  62. on and off. TalkBack will announce the mode change if you do this
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  63. successfully.
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  67. <strong>Turn off features you don't need</strong>:
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  68. If you're not going to be using the display, you can save battery by
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  69. reducing the brightness to the lowest setting and turning off animations.
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  70. You can find both of these in the Display section of Settings.
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  71. You may also want to turn off auto-rotating the screen.
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  75. <strong>TTS Extended lets you access advanced TTS features on older
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  76. Android versions</strong>:
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  77. You shouldn't download this if you have Android 2.2 or later. But if you
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  78. have Android 2.1 or earlier, TTS Extended will allow many applications to
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  79. speak using additional voices other than the built-in voice, and it gives
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  80. you more options for controlling speech.
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  84. <strong>The Music app is accessible</strong>:
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  85. When playing a song, either click or press the spacebar to play or pause.
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  86. To skip to another track, press left or right. To seek within a track,
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  87. hold down the left or right keys.
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  91. <strong>Sliders are not very accessible</strong>:
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  92. If you encounter a slider or seek control, unfortunately it's not
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  93. accessible. This is a known bug that will be fixed in a future version of
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  94. Android. However, the control does actually move if you press the left or
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  95. right arrows, there's just no way to get feedback as to the current
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  96. position. Still, if it's very important to adjust something, you can always
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  97. manipulate it blind and check to see if it had an effect some other way.
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  101. <strong>Turn off Gmail syncing if you don't need it</strong>:
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  102. Since Gmail isn't accessible, there's no need to sync it. Go to the Accounts
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  103. &amp; Sync section in the Settings to stop syncing your Gmail email. You
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  104. may want to keep syncing contacts and other Google data, though, since those
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  105. are accessible. Note that you can still read your email from Gmail using
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  106. a different accessible email program - you just can't use the built-in
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  107. Gmail-only app.
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  111. <strong>Many apps have tabs across the top of the screen</strong>:
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  112. Don't forget to check the two-dimensional layout of the screen as you're
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  113. exploring.
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  117. <strong>Android has several keyboard shortcuts</strong>:
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  118. Many of the text-editing keystrokes you're used to in a desktop computer
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  119. will work on an Android device with a keyboard. For example, hold down
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  120. Shift while moving the directional controller to select text, and press
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  121. Alt+X to cut, Alt+C to copy, and Alt+V to paste in any text box. In addition,
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  122. press Alt+Up to move to the top of a box and Alt+Down to move to the bottom.
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  123. This also works in lists, not just in text boxes.
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  128.     <a href="customizing.html">Previous: Customizing Your Experience</a>
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  131.     <a href="index.html">Up: Android Accessibility</a>
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  134.     <a href="apps.html">Next: Accessible Apps</a>
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