Use a screen reader with Google Play on Android

Find your book

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Books .
3. Explore the app to find a book:
   • Tabs: At the bottom, you’ll find tabs like "Home," "Shop," and "Library" or "My Library." Some of these might take you out of the app.
   • Navigation drawer: At the top left, you’ll find the navigation drawer. Open to explore Shop, Help & Feedback, and Settings.
   • Genre-based suggestions: Swipe to the bottom and select "Tell us what you like."
   • "Home": Search for a book you don’t have and download it.

Read a book

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Books .
   • If you already have the book, find it in the "Library" or "Home" screens.
   • If you don’t have the book, search for it at the top of the "Home" screen, then pick a result and download the book.
3. Open the book.
4. Tap the screen, then double-tap to enter skim mode.
5. Select More Read aloud.
   • To move through the text on a page, swipe.
   • To flip pages, two-finger swipe left or right.

Navigate news articles

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Newsstand .
3. You’ll be on the Home screen. Tabs at the bottom let you navigate to different places inside the app, such as "For You," "Library," "Explore," and "Read Later."
   • Navigation drawer: At the top left.
   • For You: At the bottom left. This tab has suggested news articles.
   • Library: At the bottom. This tab has your sources and topics of interest.
   • Explore: At the bottom. This tab has a list of topics you can add to your Library.
   • Read Later: At the bottom right. This tab contains articles you’ve saved to read later.

Read an article

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Newsstand .
3. Swipe or explore by touch to find an article, then double-tap it to start reading
4. Optional: To save the article for later, go to the top right and select Read later .

Navigate music

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Music .
3. You’ll be on the Home screen.
   • Navigation drawer: At the top left. The drawer holds your Music library, Settings, Help & Feedback and categories of music.
   • Recent: At the upper right. This tab holds albums and stations you’ve played recently.
   • Suggestions: Explore the Home screen. These cards list suggested artists and stations.

Play a radio station

1. If you haven’t already, turn on TalkBack.
2. Open Play Music .
3. Swipe to move through radio stations until you find the one you want to hear.
4. Swipe again to select Play .
5. Double-tap to start playing.

Use the player

With the player focused, you can rate a song thumbs-up or thumbs-down, pause it, or skip to the next or previous song.

• With the Google Play Music app player focused, two-finger swipe left to go to the previous song.
• With the Google Play Music app player focused, two-finger swipe right to go to the next song.