Enable spoken feedback

If you're on the main sign-in screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Z to enable or disable spoken feedback. You can also adjust this option on the Settings page.

1. If you haven’t already, sign in to your Chrome device.
2. Click the status area in the lower-right corner, where your account picture appears.
3. Select Settings.
4. Click Show advanced settings at the bottom of the page.
5. In the "Accessibility" section, select the "Enable spoken feedback" checkbox.

How spoken feedback works

• On the sign-in screen, the user name field and password prompts are spoken. Your password is not echoed when you enter it for security reasons.
• Once you're signed in, the Chrome OS screenreader, ChromeVox, is activated. With ChromeVox active, you get spoken feedback for all user actions (e.g. browsing menus, opening webpages).
• ChromeVox provides a set of keyboard commands you can use to navigate Chrome menus and webpages. You can navigate web content in a variety of ways. For example, pressing the arrow keys while holding down the Shift and Search keys moves through the elements on the current page and speaks them intelligently as they are traversed. If you're using an external keyboard (on a Chromebook or Chromebox), the shortcut keys are Shift and Windows key.