I enabled TalkBack through Accessibility to see what it does.
I ended up on the phone with Google support.
I could no longer pull down the Quick settings menu from the upper left corner, nor pull down the Notifications menu from the right corner/top. Meaning: no access to settings.
In addition, I discovered that I needed 2 fingers to scroll. Eventually figured it out.
I found I needed 3 clicks to launch an icon. The first click selects the icon with a little box. Then a double click is needed to actually launch the program. 3 clicks!
I might add all these "little discoveries" were made after a lot of experimenting and, well, anger.
All the while TalkBack is chattering away - just not helping with this new approach.
How to quickly disable TalkBack? Since I could not pull down settings on the front page, I went into apps to find settings. But I could not just swipe left or right to get a new page of apps. No.
No, I needed to swipe right, then left, in one motion, to actually pull the next page of apps over from the right.
Mercifully, I was finally able to disable TalkBack.
And back to what appears to be a working unit.
Has anyone else tried this? There is no explanation that I found that says TalkBack will fundamentally alter the swipe/touch/click nature of the Nexus 7.
Is this a bug, or am I just not understanding that 3X clicking is normal and needed when the machine is telling you what is going on?
I ended up on the phone with Google support.
I could no longer pull down the Quick settings menu from the upper left corner, nor pull down the Notifications menu from the right corner/top. Meaning: no access to settings.
In addition, I discovered that I needed 2 fingers to scroll. Eventually figured it out.
I found I needed 3 clicks to launch an icon. The first click selects the icon with a little box. Then a double click is needed to actually launch the program. 3 clicks!
I might add all these "little discoveries" were made after a lot of experimenting and, well, anger.
All the while TalkBack is chattering away - just not helping with this new approach.
How to quickly disable TalkBack? Since I could not pull down settings on the front page, I went into apps to find settings. But I could not just swipe left or right to get a new page of apps. No.
No, I needed to swipe right, then left, in one motion, to actually pull the next page of apps over from the right.
Mercifully, I was finally able to disable TalkBack.
And back to what appears to be a working unit.
Has anyone else tried this? There is no explanation that I found that says TalkBack will fundamentally alter the swipe/touch/click nature of the Nexus 7.
Is this a bug, or am I just not understanding that 3X clicking is normal and needed when the machine is telling you what is going on?