Accessibility Features on Chromebook

Overview You can enable synthesized speech feedback, high contrast mode, and screen magnifier for your Chromebook, if you have visual impairments.

Getting Started 1. Login on the Chromebook. 2. Click the status area in the lower-right corner, where your account name / picture appears. 3. Select Settings. 4. Click Show advanced settings at the bottom of the page. 5. In the "" section, select any of the following checkboxes: i) Show accessibility options in the system menu ii) Enable spoken feedback iii) Enable high contrast iv) Enable screen magnifier v) Enable tap dragging

After enabling Accessibility features, you will be able to adjust them using keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl + Alt + Brightness up or Brightness down Ctrl + Alt + two fingers scrolling up or down on the trackpad to magnify the screen Ctrl+Alt+Z to enable or disable spoken feedback

How spoken feedback works

 On the sign-in screen, the user name field and password prompts are spoken. Your password is not echoed when you enter it for security reasons.

 After you signed in, the Chrome OS screenreader, ChromeVox, is activated. With ChromeVox active, you get spoken feedback for all user actions (e.g. browsing menus, opening webpages).

 ChromeVox* provides a set of keyboard commands you can use to navigate Chrome menus and webpages. You can navigate web content in a variety of ways. For example, pressing the arrow keys while holding down the Shift and Search keys moves through the elements on the current page and speaks them intelligently as they are traversed. If you're using an external keyboard (on a Chromebook or Chromebox), the shortcut keys are Shift and Windows key.

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Next steps

Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of keyboard strokes and clicks that you can use to perform specific actions, such as taking a screenshot.

You can also press Ctrl+Alt+? when signed in on your Chromebook to see a map of these shortcuts directly on the screen.

To view keyboard shortcuts, visit https://support.google.com/chromeos/answer/183101.

Additional Information Learn more about ’s accessibility options at: http://www.google.com/accessibility/.

*ChromeVox is a screen reader for Chrome which brings the speed, versatility, and security of Chrome to visually impaired users. For more information, visit http://www.chromevox.com/index.html.

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