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Does the slider timeline control work with Android TalkBack Gestures? #677

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Does the slider timeline control work with Android TalkBack Gestures?#677
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@anevins12
anevins12
opened on Sep 3, 2025

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From what I read in 2023, the role=slider implementation has issues with TalkBack gestures on Android:

VoiceOver for iOS and TalkBack for Android both use gestures to interact with native sliders (e.g. single-finger swipe up or down, while the input is focused), but they don’t support those gestures for role="slider". (
https://www.tpgi.com/evolving-custom-sliders/

Is this still the case?

Apologies for not having an Android device to test with at present.

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  1. joedolson commented on Sep 5, 2025

    @joedolson
    joedolson
    on Sep 5, 2025
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    Based on my initial testing, it seems like this is still the case. I'll explore it further.

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    added this to the 5.1 milestone on May 24, 2026
  4. joedolson
    added a commit that references this issue on Sep 13, 2026

    Try: add swipe support for seekbar.

    9b5f36f

  5. joedolson commented on Sep 13, 2026

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    on Sep 13, 2026
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    The attempt here may or may not work with Talkback running; I'm still need to do testing on an actual device to be able to verify.

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