Re: Why isn't talkback improved, or as good as voiceover
Uh, no. No they're really not.
Commentary is way faster. Commentary allows customisation of pretty much everything, even without premium, with a few exceptions such as TTS voices. CSR allows you to create your own sound themes. CSR can be used along side, say, SBK or some other braille keyboard, without having to be disabled or suspended first. CSR has a far, far more advanced rotor, with far more options. Apparently, the premium version of CSR also has multi finger gestures, though I've certainly not found them.
With the premium version you have OCR, the ability to have commentary use a separate TTS engine than the system default, and also have a secondary TTS engine for notifications, and probably a lot more I'm forgetting.
So no, even if you use the free version of CSR, it still has a lot of advantages over talkback.
I'd say the screenreader landscape now is almost identical to that of windows. CSR is, in my eyes, very much the rising NVDA of the android world. It has a long way to go, sure, but it's getting there.. And it has a lot of potential.
As for google not caring about accessibility? Yeah no. In the past year alone we've gotten integrated braille screen input and multi finger gestures, with, apparently, a lot more on the way. Google just have a lot of other priorities, much like microsoft.
Oh, and please, don't play the drinking game with how many times I said CSR in this post. Lol.
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