Manage physical keyboard accessibility settings on your Googlebook

If you have limited mobility or dexterity, your Googlebook offers several physical keyboard accessibility features.

Turn on physical keyboard accessibility

1. On your Googlebook, open the Settings app .
2. Select Accessibility Physical keyboard accessibility.
   • If there’s no physical keyboard accessibility setting in the menu, make sure that you have a physical keyboard attached, then repeat these steps.
3. Turn on the required feature.

Turn on bounce keys

You can set your Googlebook to ignore fast, repeated key presses of the same key.

To use this feature:

• In 'Accessibility settings', turn on Bounce keys.
• Or, press Action + Alt + 3.

Turn on mouse keys

You can control your mouse pointer with a keyboard. By default, you can use both the primary keys and numpad. With the keys on the keyboard, you can:

• Move the pointer up, down, left, right and diagonally.

Direction	Primary keys	Numpad
Up-left	7	7
Up	8	8
Up-right	9	9
Left	u	4
Right	o	6
Down-left	j	1
Down	k	2
Down-right	l	3

• Perform left-clicks and right-clicks.

Action	Primary keys	Numpad
Primary mouse button	i	/
Secondary mouse button	5

• Press and hold, then release the mouse button.

Action	Primary keys
Press and hold the primary mouse button	m
Release the primary mouse button	, (comma)

• Toggle scroll mode.
  • With primary keys: Press . (full stop).
  • When scroll mode is on: Scroll up, down, left or right.

Direction	Primary keys	Numpad
Scroll up	8	8
Scroll left	u	4
Scroll right	o	6
Scroll down	k	2

You can also:

• Adjust the pointer acceleration and maximum speed with the slider settings.
• Control whether the primary keys are usable. The numpad is always usable.

To use this feature:

1. In 'Accessibility settings', turn on Mouse keys.
2. Press Action + Alt + 4.
   • On the confirmation window, click Use.

Turn on sticky keys

Modifier keys, like Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Action remain active after you press them until you press them again or another key. This lets you perform multi-key shortcuts even if you don't hold a modifier key.

To use this feature:

• In 'Accessibility settings', turn on Sticky keys.
• Or, press Action + Alt + 5.

Turn on slow keys

You can set how long a key must be held down for your device to register the press. This can help people with limited dexterity and tremors.

To use this feature:

• In 'Accessibility settings', turn on Slow keys.
• Or, press Action + Alt + 6.

Related resources

• Use accessibility features on Android
• Use the Accessibility Menu