Add blog post: KashCal now works with your screen reader

Author: one-kash

blog/2026-07-05-kashcal-talkback-accessibility.md

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+slug: kashcal-talkback-accessibility
+title: "KashCal now works with your screen reader"
+authors: [kashcal]
+tags: [releases, announcements]
+keywords:
+  - accessible calendar android
+  - talkback calendar app
+  - screen reader calendar android
+  - calendar app for blind android
+  - colorblind calendar android
+description: "KashCal 2026.07.05 adds full TalkBack support: headings you can jump between, spoken status, and events that say what they are. Cancelled events get crossed off, and you can set the app's language from Android settings."
+image: /img/social/home.png
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+For a while now, KashCal has had a quiet flaw: you could only use it by looking at it. It worked beautifully with your eyes, and went silent as a stone the moment you turned on a screen reader. A calendar that only works when you're watching it is, on reflection, a poster. So this release taught it to talk.
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+With TalkBack on, you can now move through KashCal by ear. Jump between headings, hear sync and offline status the moment it changes, and get told when a sign-in or a save fails instead of wondering why nothing happened. Events announce what they are, so a cancelled event says "cancelled" out loud rather than just looking faintly sad about it (it wears a line through it now, for the sighted crowd too). Bottom sheets say their name as they open, the drawer tells you which view you're in, and a subscription can finally be deleted with a real action instead of a swipe nobody could find.
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+While we were teaching it manners, we sent the languages out to live where they belong. KashCal now advertises all [67 of them](/docs/features/languages) to Android, so on Android 13 and up you pick the app's language in system settings alongside everything else, instead of spelunking through ours.
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+Two smaller dignities came along for the ride. Rotating your phone in the middle of an event no longer throws the whole thing away, and typing a title now capitalizes the first letter like a grown-up.
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+Same calendar. Now it works with the screen off, the phone sideways, and your eyes shut.
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+## Everything in this release
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+- Full screen-reader (TalkBack) support: headings, spoken status, event state read aloud
+- Cancelled events are now crossed off ([#276](https://github.com/KashCal/KashCal/issues/276))
+- Set KashCal's language from Android system settings (Android 13+, 67 languages)
+- Delete a subscription with an accessibility action, not just a swipe
+- Rotating the device no longer discards the event you're editing ([#286](https://github.com/KashCal/KashCal/issues/286))
+- Event titles auto-capitalize the first letter ([#285](https://github.com/KashCal/KashCal/issues/285))
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+KashCal is free and open source. [Get it on F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.onekash.kashcal/) or read [the docs](/docs).