Accessibility on the Chromebook
Like the mighty Transformers, Chromebooks have "more than meets the eye" when it comes to features. One very important example of this is the array of built-in accessibility tools that Chromebooks contain out of the box. Believe it or not, many of the accessibility tools that you search for to meet student accommodations (and just generally allow more choices for students to learn) are already a few clicks away on a Chromebook - no browser extensions needed. Let's go and find them! In this overview video, the hosts scroll through an eye-popping number of features that students can enable on their Chromebooks. Better yet, those features follow a student's account if they switch shared devices or swap a malfunctioning device for a working one. It's truly set it and forget it. Here are just some of the things you can enable in the Chromebook Accessibility settings: Select-to-Speak (Text-to-Speech) Dictation (Speech-to-Text) Screen Magnifier On-screen Keyboard Cu