Accessibility

● Settings ► Accessibility:

• Vision

• Hearing

• Dexterity and Interaction

• More Accessibility Settings

• Accessibility Services

• Vision

You can turn on Accessibility features to assist with visual aspects of the device.

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Tap Settings > Accessibility > Vision, and tap an option:

• Voice Assistant: Give spoken feedback to assist blind and low‑vision users.

- Voice Assistant can collect all of the text you enter, except passwords, including personal data and credit card numbers. It may also log your user interface interactions with the device.

• Voice Assistant help: View help on using Voice Assistant.

• Dark screen: Keep the screen turned off at all times for privacy.

• Rapid key input: Release your finger to enter selection instead of double tapping.

• Speak passwords: Read the characters aloud as you enter your passwords.

• Accessibility shortcut: Quickly enable accessibility features in two quick steps.

• Voice Label: Write voice recordings to NFC tags to provide information about nearby objects.

• Screen zoom and font: Configure the screen zoom level and font size and style.

• High contrast fonts: Adjust the color and outline of fonts to increase the contrast with the background.

• High contrast keyboard: Adjust the size of the Samsung keyboard and change its colors to increase the contrast between the keys and the background.

• Show button shapes: Show buttons with shaded backgrounds to make them stand out.

• Magnifier window: Magnify content shown on the screen.

• Magnification gestures: Use exaggerated gestures such as triple-tapping, double pinching, and dragging two fingers across the screen.

• Large mouse/touchpad pointer: Enable a large pointer for a connected mouse or touchpad.

• Grayscale: Enable grayscale mode instead of using colors.

• Negative colors: Reverse the display of colors from white text on a black background to black text on a white background.

• Color adjustment: Adjust the color of the screen if you are color blind or have difficulty reading the display because of the screen color.

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• Hearing

You can turn on Accessibility features to assist with audio aspects of the device.

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Tap Settings > Accessibility > Hearing, and tap an option:

• Sound detectors: Receive alerts when the device detects a baby crying or a doorbell.

• Flash notification: Set the camera light or screen to blink whenever you receive a notification.

• Mute all sounds: Turn off all notifications and audio for privacy.

• Hearing aids: Improve the sound quality for use with hearing aids.

• Samsung subtitles (CC): Use Samsung subtitles with multimedia files when available.

• Google subtitles (CC): Use Google subtitles with multimedia files when available.

• Left and right sound balance: Use the slider to set the left and right balance when using a stereo device.

• Mono audio: Switch audio from stereo to mono for use with one earphone.

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• Dexterity and Interaction

You can turn on Accessibility features to assist with dexterity and interaction aspects of the device.

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Tap Settings > Accessibility > Dexterity and interaction, and tap an option:

• Universal switch: Control your device with your customized switches.

• Assistant menu: Improve the device accessibility for users with reduced dexterity.

• Easy screen turn on: Turn on the screen without having to press any buttons.

• Touch and hold delay: Select a time interval for this action.

• Click after pointer stops: Automatically click on an item after the pointer stops over it.

• Interaction control: Block areas of the screen from touch interaction. Disable auto screen rotation and hard key functions. Only show application notifications in the Notification panel and the Status bar.

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• More Accessibility Settings

Customize additional accessibility features for your device.

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Tap Settings > Accessibility, and tap an option:

• Text-to-speech: Set your preferred TTS engine and options. For more information, see “Text-to-Speech Options”

• Direction lock: Unlock the screen by swiping in a series of directions.

• Direct access: Open your accessibility settings by pressing the Volume up key and the Power key together.

• Notification reminder: Beep at set intervals to remind you of any unread notifications.

• Answering and ending calls: Select shortcuts for answering and ending calls.

• Single tap mode: Dismiss or snooze alarms, calendar events, and timer alerts, and answer or reject incoming calls with a single tap.

• Manage accessibility: Import and export your accessibility settings, or share them with other devices.

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• Accessibility Services

Additional accessibility apps may be downloaded from the Google Play store.

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Tap Settings > Accessibility.

3. Certain accessibility services you install may be listed and configured under Services:

• Support & Protection: Protect your mobile device from threats posed by malicious websites.

• TalkBack: Your device provides spoken feedback to help blind and low-vision users.

• Switch Access: Lets you scan and select items using one or more switches.