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: Turn on sticky keys, on-screen keyboard, keyboard focus highlighting, keyboard repeat rate, or word prediction.
- 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.
- Under "Mouse 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.
- Under "Mouse 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 .
Get more help
To learn more about how to use accessibility features on your Chromebook, check out the Chromebook Accessibility Video Series.