Digital accessibility tools

Chromebooks and other Chrome devices aim to be delightful to everyone, including users who need additional features right out of the box.

The Chrome operating system makes it easy to organise and find your work by using bookmarks, rearrange apps in the app launcher, pin tabs and pin recently used apps to the shelf on a Chromebook. Uniquely, once set these features sync with you.

With stylus supported Chromebooks, practice fine motor skills, magnification  and improve handwriting.

Click here to find out more specialist tools for your Chromebook.

Fonts

Google Docs  now offer eight different Lexend font families that have varied widths and spacing, so users can choose the font style that’s best for their reading speed.

You can also use the Atkinson Hyperlegible font which has been developed specifically to increase legibility for readers with low vision, and to improve comprehension.

From the Font menu in the toolbar, select “More fonts”. Then, search for required font and select the fonts to add them to your saved fonts. These will now appear in the “My fonts” list and in the Font menu in the toolbar.

Another option is for user to install the Open Dyslexic font Chrome Extension. This allows a user to change all their content to this dyslexic friendly font. Click here to install.

Organisation

The great thing about the Chrome Browser is that it is really easy to find and organise content or apps that matter. 

Some helpful functions

• Use bookmarks and the bookmarks toolbar to quickly link to websites and files

• Rearrange the order of the apps tiles in the drop down app launcher, drag the tiles to the preferred order.

• Right click on an open tab to ‘pin tab’ too!

• On a Chromebook - use the ‘Pin to shelf’ feature to quickly find apps used more often - Right click and Pin to shelf

• Rearrange the shelf icon order