[jareds]

I wonder if full disk encryption by default will render Android unusable to blind people such as my self? When I encrypted my Nexus 7 2012 running 4.4 it turns out that you are prompted to enter your password before the talkback screen reader starts talking. Needless to say this is a major issue and no one from Google appears to be interested in fixing it as far as I can tell. With my iPhone Voiceover comes up talking and allows me to enter my password while still having the device encrypted.

[higherpurpose]

The article seems to say that it won't require a password unlock again, after the boot one.

[jareds]

I can enter a normal pin or password if the device is encrypted since the operating system is completely loaded and along with that Talkback is. It's the boot password I can not enter because not enough of the operating system is loaded for Talkback to speak.

[blueskin_]

Default still implies it can be disabled. As it is, I'd guess it wouldn't be that hard to store the TTS somewhere unencrypted and load that first, perhaps as part of the bootloader.