You can customise your Googlebook with accessibility settings and apps.
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Accessibility overview
Your Googlebook runs Googlebook OS, an operating system with cloud storage, built-in Google features and multiple layers of security.
With Googlebook, you can access various built-in accessibility features. These features can help you to adapt and improve your experience.
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Turn on accessibility features
- Open your Googlebook's Settings app
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- Select Accessibility.
.Cognitive
If you or someone you care for experiences limited cognition, focus disorders or learning differences, you can choose accessibility features to meet your cognitive needs:
- Type with your voice (dictation): You can use your voice to type and communicate. Learn how to type with your voice on Googlebook.
- Select to Speak: You can hear on-screen text spoken aloud to help with learning differences, dyslexia or low vision. Learn about Select to Speak.
- Timing controls: You can select how long to show temporarily visible messages that ask for action. Learn how to manage timing controls.
If you or someone you care for experiences photosensitivity or seizure triggers, you can reduce sensory screen stimuli with built-in Googlebook accessibility features:
- Dark theme: To help your eyes, you can change the colours of your Googlebook screen using Dark theme. Learn how to turn on Dark theme.
- Remove animations: You can limit on-screen movement in the accessibility settings under the colour and motion. Learn how to remove animations.
- Text cursor blink rate: In the Accessibility settings, under Colour and motion, you can reduce the cursor blink rate. Learn how to change the text cursor blinking rate.
Hearing
If you or someone you care for is deaf or hard of hearing, explore these accessibility features for support:
- Caption styles: You can customise how captions appear on your screen, including text colour, size, font and background opacity. Learn how to use custom caption styles.
- Live Caption: You can automatically generate captions for media playing on your device. Learn how to turn on Live Caption.
- Mono audio: You can play the same audio through both speakers so that you don't miss content in stereo sound. Learn how to use mono audio.
- Volume adjustment: You can change the volume on your Googlebook with the volume hardware keys and in Settings. Learn how to use your Googlebook keyboard.
Mobility and dexterity
If you or someone that you care for has limited reach, manipulation or strength, you can adjust your accessibility settings to make it easier to navigate and interact with your Googlebook:
- Automatic clicks: You can set the cursor to automatically 'click' when it stops and customise the actions the cursor takes. Learn how to manage autoclick (dwell timing) settings.
- Customise keyboard shortcuts: You can add, edit, delete, reset or fix your keyboard shortcuts through the Shortcuts app. Learn how to customise your keyboard shortcuts.
- Timing controls: You can select how long to show temporarily visible messages that ask for action. Learn how to manage timing controls.
- Bounce keys: To decrease accidental keystrokes by delaying time between repeated keystrokes. Learn how to manage bounce keys settings.
- Mouse keys: To control your mouse with the keyboard. Learn how to manage mouse keys settings.
- Slow keys: To introduce a delay so that keys must be held down to be registered. Learn how to manage slow keys settings.
- Sticky keys: To press one key at a time instead of holding multiple keys for shortcuts. Learn how to manage sticky keys settings.
- On-screen keyboard: You can use your Googlebook's on-screen keyboard to type, handwrite text or add images to files, documents and emails. Learn how to use accessibility on-screen keyboard features.
- Voice Access: You can use your voice to open apps, navigate and edit text with Voice Access.
Speech
To control your Googlebook without vocal capability:
- Built-in keyboard or on-screen keyboard: To type, you can use the built-in keyboard. To type with a mouse or other pointing device, you can use the operating system's built-in on-screen keyboard. Learn how to use accessibility on-screen keyboard features.
- Select to Speak: You can hear on-screen text that you have written spoken aloud. Learn how to use Select to Speak.
Vision
If you or someone that you care for is visually impaired, explore these accessibility features:
- TalkBack screen reader: To interact with your Googlebook using spoken feedback, you can use the TalkBack screen reader. Learn about how to use TalkBack keyboard shortcuts.
- Braille display support: You can use refreshable braille displays with your Googlebook. Explore these resources for braille support:
If you or someone you care for experiences photosensitivity or seizure triggers, you can reduce sensory screen stimuli with built-in Googlebook accessibility features:
- Colour inversion: You can reverse colours on the screen, including media. Learn how to turn on colour inversion.
- Dark theme: To help your eyes, you can change the colours of your Googlebook screen using Dark theme. Learn how to turn on Dark theme.
- Reduced animations and text cursor blink rate: You can limit on-screen movement and reduce cursor blink rate. Learn how to control motion.
If you or someone you care for has low vision or light sensitivity, you can make it easier to find what's on your screen or hear on-screen text spoken aloud:
- Display size and cursors: You can increase the size of your display settings or increase the size of your mouse cursor to make it more prominent. Learn how to change text settings.
- Screen colours: If you have issues with photosensitivity or colour blindness, you can invert colours or use colour correction. Learn how to change display colours.
- Magnification: To find items on your Googlebook screen better, you can zoom in or magnify your screen. Learn how to use magnification on your screen.
- Select to Speak: You can hear on-screen text spoken aloud to help with learning differences, dyslexia or low vision. Learn about Select to Speak.
If you’re colour blind:
- Colour correction: For people with colour blindness, colour correction adjusts how colours display on your screen. Learn how to use colour correction.