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TikTalk is built blind-first, by a blind developer who uses it on his own LIVEs. This page says what it does for blind and low-vision, deaf and hard-of-hearing, motor-impaired and neurodivergent creators, how we test it, and what doesn’t work yet.

Blind and low-vision creators

  • Chat, gifts, joins, follows and every other kind of LIVE activity read aloud, in the voice, speed and order you choose. Turn each kind on or off.
  • A screen reader mode that announces activity at a pace you can follow. When a lot arrives at once, it is summed up in one line instead of read out word for word.
  • Every page works with a screen reader and a keyboard alone: real headings, labelled buttons and a skip link.
  • Hold speech while you talk, then catch up. Skip, mute or block whoever is being read.
  • “What just happened?” sums up the last minute, and “Read that again” repeats the last line.
  • A pronunciation dictionary, so names and emoji are said your way.
  • Large print on the LIVE page, in four sizes, and light, dark and high contrast themes.
  • Every figure, such as viewers and diamonds, read out on demand.
Example: a few seconds of a LIVE, as TikTalk says it.
  • ChatSarah says brilliant drumming
  • GiftAlex sent 4 roses
  • SongPriya requested Golden Hour by JVKE
  • AIYou asked who’s top: Alex, with 1,300 diamonds
  • PKYou are now leading, 4200 to 3100
  • TreasureTom’s treasure box opens in 1 minute

Deaf and hard-of-hearing creators and viewers

  • Live captions of your voice on your stream, through OBS or TikTok LIVE Studio, in the language you speak.
  • Captions translated into another language, underneath your own words, on Standard with AI and AI with premium voices.
  • A visual alert for every sound alert: a row on your LIVE page, and a card on your stream that says who sent what and which sound played.
  • Everything TikTalk says aloud is also written on your LIVE page.

More about captions and visual alerts

Screenshot of the live captions overlay over a dark stream background. Large white words on a black box read: thank you so much for the roses, Priya this next one is for you. Underneath, in yellow, the Spanish translation: muchas gracias por las rosas, Priya.
Live captions in OBS, with a translation underneath.

Creators who find a mouse or keyboard hard

  • A private link for each action, for a Stream Deck, Bitfocus Companion, Touch Portal or a MIDI controller through a bridge.
  • Push to talk: say skip, hold, read that again or what just happened.
  • Tap to talk, for anyone who can’t hold a button or a key down.
  • Keyboard shortcuts you can turn on and change, letter by letter.

More about hands-free control

Screenshot of the Your links panel on TikTalk's Stream Deck page. A note says each link does one thing on your LIVE page and should be kept private. Then a list of links, each in its own box with a Copy button: Hold speech, or let it go (one button); Hold speech; Let speech go; Skip the message being read; Mute who is being read; Block who is being read (press twice within 3 seconds); Read the last line again; Say what just happened. Each link is an api.ttlk.live address ending in the action, such as /skip.
The Stream Deck page: a link for each action, each with a Copy button.

Neurodivergent creators

  • Calm overlays: no pulsing, bouncing, flashing or scrolling on your stream.
  • If your device asks for reduced motion, TikTalk’s pages stop animating.
  • Choose exactly what is read, so you hear less noise. Repeated emoji and duplicate messages are cut.
  • Hold speech when you need a moment, and “What just happened?” when you’ve lost track.
  • Plain English everywhere.

Accessibility statement

This statement covers ttlk.live: the public website, the TikTalk app and its OBS overlays.

Our target

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

How we test

  • Automated axe checks against WCAG 2.2 AA run on every change: every public page in all three themes, the app’s pages, and a LIVE page full of chat.
  • Contrast tests on every colour pair in each theme: AA in light and dark, AAA in high contrast.
  • Checks that pages reflow at 320 pixels wide and still work with text at 200%.
  • Screen-reader and keyboard checks by a blind developer, who runs his own LIVEs with TikTalk.

Known limits

  • Live captions and push to talk need Chrome or Edge on a computer. They use the browser’s speech recognition, which sends the sound to Google or Microsoft.
  • Captions drop anything heard while TikTalk is talking or playing a sound, so without headphones they miss some of what you say.
  • Captions are of your own microphone only, not of guests in your LIVE.
  • We haven’t yet tried the control links with a physical Stream Deck or MIDI controller, or the captions and visual alerts overlays in every version of OBS and TikTok LIVE Studio. If something doesn’t work for you, please tell us.
  • Single-key shortcuts are off when you start, so that a screen reader or dictation can’t press them by accident. Turn them on from the Voice Configuration page.
  • Paying and connecting Spotify happen on Stripe’s and Spotify’s own pages, which we don’t control.

Report a problem

If something in TikTalk is hard or impossible to use, email support@blinddrummer.uk. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and your browser and screen reader if you use one. Signed in, you can also use the Feedback page.

Last reviewed on 19 October 2026.