Explore accessibility features for your organisation
How Chrome browser and ChromeOS make your organisation's computing experience more accessible.
accessibility policies
Explore enterprise accessibility policies
Take a look at the accessibility policies in the Google Admin console for ChromeOS devices. They allow IT to manage these settings centrally for their users across their deployment. Some policies include: ChromeVox spoken feedback, Select to Speak and Dictation.
font sizes
Customise web page content and font sizes in Chrome
Chrome allows your workforce to change the size of everything on the website that they visit, including text, images and videos for improved digital accessibility. It's also possible to change only the size of the font on a web page.
IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS
Get image descriptions on Chrome
When using a screen reader in Chrome, you can get descriptions of unlabelled images. This accessibility solution for image descriptions is available in a large variety of languages including Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
cursor colour
Change your cursor colour
Your end users can update the colour of their cursor to improve its visibility on ChromeOS. There are seven colours available: red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta and pink, in addition to default black. To change the cursor, go to the 'Mouse and touchpad' section of Settings.
more accessible PDFs
Export accessible PDFs through Chrome
Chrome continues to make improvements to make PDFs more accessible. Users can save web pages as a PDF that will include metadata like the page's headings, lists, tables, paragraphs and image descriptions. This makes the web more accessible for people with low vision or who are blind and who use a screen reader to access PDF files.
live caption
Generate captions with Live Caption on Chrome
With the accessibility feature Live Caption on Chrome, you can automatically generate real-time captions for media with audio on your browser. It works across social and video sites, podcasts and radio content, personal video libraries (such as Google Photos), embedded video players and most web-based video or audio chat services. ChromeOS also now supports live captions.
Select to Speak
Select text to read aloud and shade background text with Select to Speak
The Select to Speak accessibility feature lets users select text on a specific part of their screen and have it spoken aloud – extremely helpful for people with low vision or learning disabilities. To make it easier to focus on the spoken text, you can now shade the background text that is not being highlighted. To enable this Select to Speak feature, search for 'Select to Speak settings' within Settings.
ChromeVox
Use Voice Switching and other ChromeVox enhancements
Enhancements to the ChromeVox screen reader help users with visual impairments use ChromeOS. Employees can utilise accessibility features like Voice Switching, which automatically changes the screen reader's voice based on the language of the text being read.
dictation
Enter text on your Chromebook with speech
Dictation is an accessibility feature that allows users to speak to their Chromebook to enter text in most places where they may otherwise type. End users can use voice typing to enter, edit and format text in Docs and Slides, all without a keyboard.
switch access
Interact with your device using Switch Access
For users unable to use a traditional mouse and/or keyboard, ChromeOS delivers Switch Access, an accessibility feature that allows you to interact with your ChromeOS device using one or more switches. Switch Access works by scanning the items on your screen until you make a selection.
improve accessibility
Leverage extensions to improve digital accessibility
There are many extensions that can also help users with disabilities enjoy the web. Take a look at this list of extensions for other tools that can alter Chrome to your users' unique needs. As an admin, don't forget that you can manage and pre-install extensions of Chrome for your workforce.
