Turn on Chromebook accessibility features

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.