Google adds new AI accessibility features to Android, Chrome, and Chromebook
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16 May 2025 06:17:28 am.
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Google launches new accessibility features in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
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Googletoday announced a suite of newaccessibilityfeatures in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, includingAI-powered and personality-driven settingsfor users' most popular assistive tools.
Earlier this week, the company also announced new AI-powered scam prevention tools in Chrome browsers, as it tries tooverhaul the public's perceptionof tech and its encroachment into our lives,Black Mirror-style.
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Gemini for Talkback can carry a convo
For Android users, Google is enhancing the Talkback experience — the company's in-house screen reader tool for people who are blind or have low vision — with more Gemini features, including the ability to ask questions about Talkback's descriptions. Users can also get live information about their entire screens by asking specific questions to Gemini while using Talkback.
Google first announcedGemini for Talkback in 2024, intended to provide support for onscreen images withoutalt text.
More human captions
Google is also revamping itsExpressive Captionsfeature, introduced in December to provide a more accurate captioning experience that includes the vocalizations and emotions of the speaker within the caption's text, such as gasps, raised voices, and background noise context. The new expressive captions will now add the flair of a speaker's vocal stylings, such as elongated vowels or dragged out sounds, and even more sound labels, like whistling.
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New accessibility tools for students, and more
For Chromebooks, the company is collaborating with College Board — the national nonprofit that oversees AP, SAT, and college admissions curricula — to integrate Google's accessibility tools into theBluebooktesting app. Students will be able to use their Chromebook's assistive features, likeChromeVox screen readerandDictation, when taking a College Board test.
In addition, mobile Chrome users will now be able to zoom in on just the text of a webpage, instead of the entire screen, with Page Zoom. And the company is also introducing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for PDFs, which will allow screen readers to interact and understand scanned PDFs.
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