You can make your Chromebook easier to use when you turn on accessibility features that work best for your needs.
Step 1: Find accessibility features
- On your computer:
- At the bottom right, select the time.
- Press Alt + Shift + s.
- Select Settings Accessibility.
- Optional: To have quick access to accessibility features, turn on Always show accessibility options in the system menu.
Step 2: Turn on a feature
Choose the accessibility features you'd like to use:
- Text-to-speech: Turn on the screen reader or Select-to-speak.
- Type text with your voice: Turn on dictation.
- Display and magnification: Turn on:
- Color correction: Color filters for protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, or find the display in grayscale. You can adjust the filter intensity.
- Color inversion: Screens change from light to dark and vice versa.
- Full-screen magnifier: Use to enlarge items on the screen.
- Docked magnifier: To find screen magnification, use a split-screen.
- Reduced animations: Limit on-screen movement.
- Display settings: To make items on your screen smaller or larger, change display size.
- Website text size and font: Customize text size and font for the web browser.
- Keyboard and text input: Turn on:
- On-screen keyboard: Use the on-screen keyboard.
- Dictation: Type with your voice.
- Switch Access: Control your device with one or more switches.
- Sticky keys: Turn on Chromebook accessibility features.
- Highlight item with keyboard focus: Item is highlighted when you move focus.
- Highlight text cursor: Cursor is highlighted when it appears or moves.
- Text cursor blink rate: Adjust the text blink rate to fast or don’t blink.
- Navigate with text cursor or caret browsing: Use the arrow keys to move through items letter by letter.
- Mouse and touchpad: Turn on navigation buttons in tablet mode, automatic clicking, tap dragging, cursor highlighting, or change the cursor's size or color.
- Audio: Play all sounds together through all speakers or play sound on startup.
- Chrome Live Caption: Turn on Chrome Live Captions for media played on your Chrome browser.
- At the bottom right, select the time.
- Or press Alt + Shift + s.
- Select Settings Accessibility Cursor and touchpad.
- Select Open mouse and touchpad device settings.
- To move an item, double-tap it and hold, then drag.
To use tap-to-select, double-tap it and hold, then drag it to move.
- At the bottom right, select the time.
- Or press Alt + Shift + s.
- Select Settings Accessibility.
- To enter keyboard shortcuts sequentially, under "Keyboard and text input," turn on Sticky keys.
To use sticky keys, press Search , Launcher , Shift, Alt, or Ctrl, whichever key starts the keyboard shortcut.
- To keep a key pressed until you finish the keyboard shortcut, press the key twice.
- To unpress a key, press it a third time.
You can use buttons instead of gestures to switch between apps and interact with your Chromebook in tablet mode. Learn how to change from laptop to tablet mode.
- At the bottom right, select the time.
- Or press Alt + Shift + s.
- Select Settings Accessibility Cursor and touchpad.
- Turn on Show navigation buttons.
- At the bottom, the buttons will appear.
- To go back to the previous screen, on the bottom left, select Back .
- To go to your Home screen, on the bottom left, select the Launcher . Or press Alt + Shift + L.
- To view all your open app windows, on the bottom right, select Show windows .
To turn on swipe gesture:
- At the bottom right, select the time.
- Or press Alt + Shift + s.
- Select Settings Accessibility Cursor and touchpad.
- Turn on Use a swipe gesture to navigate between pages.
Get more help
To learn more about how to use accessibility features on your Chromebook, check out the Chromebook Accessibility Video Series.