Accessibility Settings are there to help make usage of the Chromebook easier and more personalized. There are lots of different adjustments you can make to the displays or presets to help make the Chromebook work best for you!
In addition, if your device is seemingly doing something odd like making certain noises or displaying certain things, often something is enabled in Accessibility Settings and can just be disabled.
Accessibility settings can be found on the left hand panel of both the Browser Settings and the Device Settings.
Text-to-Speech features can be super helpful if audibly hearing the content is beneficial to the student.
The voice settings are also able to be customized.
If your device is reading aloud everything and you don't want it to, this can be a helpful setting to make sure it is disabled.
**If you are having difficulties seeing the text, the bottom link shown in the red boxed area will allow you to change the text size. This can be a bit more helpful as you are still able to see most of everything else as well. Using the magnifier may just cut out parts of the screen to make other sections larger.
Display accessibility features can be potentially the most shocking if they are unintentionally enabled.
High Contrast mode will invert many of the colors and possibly make it more difficult to view certain web pages. If used correctly, it can be helpful, but if accidentally turned on, it may be a little disorienting.
Also enabling the full screen magnifier or docked magnifier can also be something that can make usage more difficult than helpful.
The Keyboard and Text Input features can be super helpful if typing is a challenge.
The toggle features can help with text caret visibility, speaking to type, and also sticky keys.
To fine tune the keyboard settings even further, the last option will bring you to the keyboard device settings where you can make other adjustments.
The Mouse and Touch pad features can be helpful if using the smaller touchpad on the Chromebook is difficult at times. The first three toggles can help with cursor selection, size and visibility.
If you want to customize the mouse and touchpad further, the bottom link will open the device settings where you can adjust other mouse and touchpad related features.
Audio and Captions are great to utilize with videos and even photos as well.
If the audio seems to be sounding odd, the mono audio could be enabled and just needs to be toggled off.
If the Chromebook also is playing a sound on startup, this is where you can disable that feature.
If you do want to add more accessibility features, at the very bottom of the Audio and Captions section there is a link to the Chrome Web Store.
*Depending on the feature, it may or may not be downloadable due to the district device management*