When TalkBack is enabled, is there any way to set the accessibility focus manual to a specific view? For instance, when my Activity is started I want TalkBack to automatically focus on a certain Button (yellow frame around the view) and read its content description.

What I&#39;ve tried so far:

        myButton.setFocusable(true);
        myButton.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
        myButton.requestFocus();

requestFocus(), it seems, is only requesting input focus and has nothing to do with accessibility focus. I&#39;ve also tried:

        myButton.sendAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUSED);
        myButton.sendAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_FOCUSED);
        myButton.sendAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_TEXT_CHANGED);
        myButton.announceForAccessibility(&quot;accessibility test&quot;);
        myButton.performAccessibilityAction(64, null); // Equivalent to ACTION_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUS

        AccessibilityManager manager = (AccessibilityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE);
        if (manager.isEnabled()) {
            AccessibilityEvent e = AccessibilityEvent.obtain();
            e.setSource(myButton);
            e.setEventType(AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_VIEW_ACCESSIBILITY_FOCUSED);
            e.setClassName(getClass().getName());
            e.setPackageName(getPackageName());
            e.getText().add(&quot;another accessibility test&quot;);
            manager.sendAccessibilityEvent(e);
        }

None of this seems to work.

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