Cannot open System Accessibility settings screen programmatically on FireTv

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Hello everyone,

We have a requirement to redirect the user from our TV application to the System Accessibility screen upon pressing a button. We tried to do this like on any other AndroidTV device by starting an Intent with the following details:

        val intent = Intent("android.settings.ACCESSIBILITY_SETTINGS")
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)
        startActivity(intent)

However for this we are getting the following exception (while testing on FireTv OS6)

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=android.settings.ACCESSIBILITY_SETTINGS flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.amazon.tv.settings.v2/.tv.accessibility.AccessibilityActivity } from 
ProcessRecord{aa8d344 1581:com.example.myapplication.androidTv.firetv/u0a208} (pid=1581, uid=10208) 
requires com.amazon.tv.permission.LAUNCHER_SETTINGS

Analyzing the device’s settings apk we noticed that all the activities in there have the permission requirement

<activity
            android:theme="@ref/0x7f110074"
            android:label="@ref/0x7f1002b8"
            android:name="com.amazon.tv.settings.v2.tv.accessibility.AccessibilityActivity"
            android:permission="com.amazon.tv.permission.LAUNCHER_SETTINGS"
            android:taskAffinity="com.amazon.tv.settings.v2"
            android:excludeFromRecents="true"
            android:launchMode="1"
            android:screenOrientation="0"
            android:configChanges="0x40000ffb">

Is there any way for a regular app to be able to open the Accessibility screen or is this reserved to the FireTv Launcher alone?

Thanks,
Florian

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Hi Florian,

Thanks for posting. We have messaged the appropriate team for further investigation and will let you know once we receive an update.