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TL;DR
- Google is engaged on a characteristic that exhibits a notification once you dismiss the floating button that opens the accessibility menu.
- Tapping this notification will convey again the floating accessibility button.
- This characteristic isn’t reside but, however Google added code for it in Android 15, permitting us to indicate it off.
Google gives a variety of instruments that purpose to make Android phones accessible to as many customers as potential, together with Android’s aptly named accessibility menu. The big on-screen menu incorporates easy-to-interact-with buttons to regulate your Android machine. There are buttons to launch the digital assistant, open the facility menu, improve or lower the quantity, and extra.
When you activate the characteristic in Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility menu, you’re introduced with considered one of two methods to launch it. You’ll be able to both allow a quantity key shortcut, which requires you to press and maintain each quantity keys for 3 seconds, or you’ll be able to allow the accessibility button — a floating button that sits on prime of apps.
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The accessibility button is a small circle that may be moved round on display like chat bubbles, and it may also be stashed to the facet of the display like picture-in-picture home windows (and soon, chat bubbles). Its dimension and transparency may also be adjusted, and it may also be made to routinely fade after a number of seconds so it’s simpler to see your cellphone’s display.
Should you depend on Android’s accessibility menu to regulate your machine, then I’m certain the floating button is undoubtedly a helpful characteristic to you. Nevertheless, if you end up needing to quickly dismiss the accessibility button for no matter purpose, then you might discover it annoying that Android solely provides you a number of seconds to undo the dismissal. Should you miss that window, then you need to dig via Settings to convey the button again.
Happily, Google is seemingly engaged on an answer to this minor downside within the type of a notification that can seem once you dismiss the floating accessibility button. I discovered references for this new notification whereas digging via the supply code for Android 15. The notification merely tells you that the accessibility button has been hidden and that it may be introduced again by tapping the notification.
Code
Accessibility button hidden
Faucet to indicate accessibility button This characteristic is being developed beneath the code identify “Drag To Cover,” and it’s at present disabled by default in Android 15. Nevertheless, with a little bit of tinkering, I managed to allow it to indicate what the notification appears like. Tapping it brings again the accessibility button, as anticipated.
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It’s unclear why Google hasn’t shipped this characteristic but, contemplating it appears full. Maybe there are nonetheless some unresolved bugs with it, through which case it may arrive within the upcoming Android 15 QPR2 beta and even in Android 16.
Alternatively, perhaps Google determined to desert this characteristic solely as a result of it thinks it gained’t be helpful to individuals who truly use the floating accessibility button. Should you use the accessibility button, tell us in the event you’d discover this “Drag To Cover” characteristic helpful!
