Turn on Chromebook accessibility features

Choose the accessibility features that you'd like to use:

• Text-to-speech: Turn on the screen reader or Select to Speak.
• Type text with your voice: Turn on dictation.
• Display: Enable colour filters for protanopia, deuteranopia or tritanopia, or view the display in greyscale with colour correction, turn on colour inversion mode, turn on the screen magnifier, and change the screen resolution or text size.
• Keyboard: Turn on sticky keys, on-screen keyboard, keyboard focus highlighting, keyboard repeat rate or word prediction.
• Mouse and touchpad: Turn on navigation buttons in tablet mode, automatic clicking, tap dragging, cursor highlighting, or change the cursor's size or colour.
• Audio: Play all sounds together through all speakers or play sound on startup.
• Chrome Live Caption: Turn on Chrome Live Captions for media played on your Chrome Browser.

1. At the bottom right, select the time. Or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Select Settings   Accessibility.
3. Under 'Mouse and touchpad', select Open mouse and touchpad device settings.
4. Turn on Enable tap dragging.

To use tap-to-select, double-tap the object and hold, then drag it to move.

1. At the bottom right, select the time. Or press Alt + Shift + s.
2. Select Settings   Accessibility.
3. To enter keyboard shortcuts sequentially, under 'Keyboard and text input', turn on Sticky keys.

To use sticky keys, press Search , Launcher , Shift, Alt or Ctrl, whichever key starts the keyboard shortcut.

• To keep a key pressed until you finish the keyboard shortcut, press the key twice.
• To unpress a key, press it a third time.

You can use buttons instead of gestures to switch between apps and interact with your Chromebook in tablet mode. Learn how to change from laptop to tablet mode.