Android: How to eliminate spoken text from AccessibilityEvents when extending SeekBar?

Question

My Android app contains a custom slider control based on the SeekBar, and I want to attach a custom text phrase to my control to explain its use for Accessibili

Answer 1

I believe that this is a bug in TalkBack, and have raised Google Eyes-Free issue #375, including example code.

Update: Google have now archived this. Link moved to: http://code.google.com/archive/p/eyes-free/issues/375