Accessibility Tips in Google Chrome

Google Chrome offers extensions that can be downloaded to increase functionality and accessibility, such as adjusting colour contrast, customizing font size and style, screen shading, hands-free voice control, text to speech and speech to text.

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Some recommended extensions

Live Captions

Live Caption generates captions automatically for videos, podcasts, games, live streams, video calls, or other audio media from Chrome browser on your computer. Audio and captions are processed locally and stay on the device.

Claro Read Chrome
ClaroRead Chrome is a text to speech extension that reads digital content aloud, including website content, accessible PDFs, and Google Docs. The extension allows customization of spoken voices and has a coloured overlay to reduce background contrast. h

Read&Write for Chrome
Read&Write is a plug-in that offers support for reading, writing, research, and studying by providing text-to-speech, text and picture dictionaries, speech-to-text, word prediction, highlighting, voice notes, and simplifying readability of page by removing ads and other context that can be distracting.

StayFocusd
StayFocusd helps with productivity by restricting the amount of time you can spend on a website. Once you have reached your limit, you will be blocked for the rest of the day. You can disable the blocking feature in the Customise tab in the Stayfocusd settings pace. You can also sync this to work with your other computers.

ChromeVox
Chromebooks have a built-in screen reader called ChromeVox, which enables people with visual impairments to use the Chrome operating system. ChromeVox is a screen reader created by Google and helps the users to read content on the internet in the form of speech.