Accessibility Options

Turn on Chromebook Accessibility Features

Step 1: Find accessibility features. Click your account photo or press Alt + Shift + s. Click Settings . At the bottom, click Advanced. ...

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
Display: High contrast mode, screen magnifier, screen resolution, text size
Keyboard: Sticky keys, on-screen keyboard, highlighting, keyboard repeat rate, word prediction
Mouse and touchpad: Automatic clicking, tap dragging, large cursor (and change its size), cursor highlighting
Audio: Play all sounds together through all speakers

To learn more about accessibility options, click here.

Adjust resolution and zoom

If you find text or images a little too hard to see on your Chromebook (especially on newer high-resolution screens), you’ve got a couple of options. Open Chrome’s primary menu by clicking on the clock in the lower-right corner, then click “Settings.” Click “Display settings” to start.

On this screen you can change the resolution of your monitor. Unlike Windows or OS X laptops, Chromebooks don’t actually change the resolution being fed to the screen itself. Instead they change the virtual resolution, which keeps all portions of the interface sharp but renders them larger or smaller. If you want to make everything on your Chromebook bigger, including menu bars and app shortcuts, click the “Resolution” drop-down menu and choose a lower value. The screen will change immediately, so try a few different values to find one that’s comfortable for you.

If Chrome’s menus and other interface elements look alright but you want to change the scale of text and images on websites, go back to the main Settings menu, then click “Show advanced settings.” Scroll down until you see “Web content.” Here you can change the font size and page zoom manually — selecting font alone will change text size, but zooming in or out will make entire pages large or smaller.

These values in the Settings menu control sizes across all web pages. You can customize the zoom on individual pages even more. Just press Ctrl and the plus or minus buttons in the main Chrome window to make text and images larger or smaller. To get back to the default zoom level, press Ctrl + 0 (zero).

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