Turn on Chromebook accessibility features

To have pages read aloud to you, turn on your Chromebook’s built-in screen reader:

1. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings .
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the 'Accessibility' section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. Under 'Text-to-Speech', turn on Enable ChromeVox. Find out more about how to use ChromeVox.

To have only part of a page read to you:

1. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings .
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the 'Accessibility' section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. Under 'Text-to-Speech', turn on Enable select-to-speak.
6. To select what you’d like read to you, on your keyboard, press and hold Search . Drag the pointer over a word or area of the screen.
7. Your Chromebook will read the section aloud and each word will be highlighted.
   • Optional: To turn off highlighting or to change the colour of the highlighted words, click Open select-to-speak settings.
   • Optional: To stop select-to-speak while it’s reading something, press Ctrl.

Note: Select-to-speak won’t work with a stylus or the on-screen keyboard.

1. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings .
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the 'Accessibility' section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. Under 'Mouse and touchpad', turn on Enable tap dragging.
6. Click Open mouse and touchpad device settings.
7. Turn on Enable tap-to-click.

To use tap-to-click, double-tap the object and hold, then drag it to move.

1. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings .
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the 'Accessibility' section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. Under 'Mouse and touchpad', turn on Automatically click when the mouse pointer stops.
6. In the 'Delay before click' drop-down, choose how long you’d like your Chromebook to pause before clicking.

To click without physically pressing your mouse or touchpad, hover over the object that you'd like to click.

1. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Click Settings .
3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
4. In the 'Accessibility' section, click Manage accessibility features.
5. To perform keyboard shortcuts by entering them sequentially, under 'Keyboard', turn on Enable sticky keys.

To use sticky keys, press Search, 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.