ChromeOS Display Accessibility

The display of your ChromeOS Device is how many users interact with their devices. However, for those who suffer from vision issues, this is not often possible. ChromeOS offers several ways for people with limited vision to interact with ChromeOS powered devices. This section will provider an overview of several of the accessibility features of ChromeOS.

Use High Contrast Mode

The High Contrast Mode uses a limited color palette with contrasting colors to make the interface easier to use. This is not simply inverting the colors on your display, though often times the high contrast mode looks similar to an inverted display because of the darker color scheme.

Enable full-screen magnifier

The Full-Screen Magnifier will cause ChromeOS to automatically increase the size of anything that your mouse cursor is actively hovering over to assist those who have trouble seeing smaller elements on the screen.

Enable docked magnifier

The ChromeOS docked magnifier works in the same way the full-screen magnifier works, but instead of taking over the whole screen, the magnifier only takes over the top 1/3rd of the display.

Open display device settings

This is a shortcut to the ChromeOS Display Settings menu, which will allow you to adjust the resolution and other display settings on your device and secondary displays.

Open Appearance Settings

The Appearance Settings will open the Chrome browser Appearance settings screen which will allow you to change the themes, change font sizes of web content and setup automatic zooming of web pages.

Changes in the Appearance Settings will only work in Chrome Browser Tabs, Progressive Web Applications and some other Chrome System Applications. Unlike other settings in the ChromeOS Accessibility Settings, these changes are not system-wide.