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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

  1. On your computer:
    • At the bottom right, select the time.
    • Press Alt + Shift + s.
  2. 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.
    • Bounce keys: Adjust the delay time between repeated keystrokes.
    • Slow keys: Adjust the delay time to allow all keystrokes.
  • 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.

Tap and drag your finger to move objects

  1. At the bottom right, select the time.
    • Or press Alt + Shift + s.
  2. Select Settings Accessibility Cursor and touchpad.
  3. Select Open mouse and touchpad device settings.
  4. 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.

Use keyboard shortcuts one key at a time

  1. At the bottom right, select the time.
    • Or press Alt + Shift + s.
  2. Select Settings Accessibility.
  3. 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.

Use buttons to navigate in tablet mode Swipe to navigate between pages

To turn on swipe gesture:

  1. At the bottom right, select the time.
    • Or press Alt + Shift + s.
  2. Select Settings Accessibility Cursor and touchpad.
  3. Turn on Use a swipe gesture to navigate between pages.

Tip: If you scroll over a page, it turns the page back. To turn this off, turn on Use a swipe gesture to navigate between pages.

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Last Update: October 24, 2025