Accessibility settings in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge allow users to customize visual and display options to improve readability and usability. This content walks through locating and adjusting those settings in both browsers.
Browser Accessibility Options
Unfortunately, we're all getting older, and as I get older, I'm finding my eyesight isn't quite as good as it used to be. So what I'm having to do is go into accessibility options on my devices, whether it's my phone or my computer or my browser, and change some settings so I can better read things, better see things, make maybe some text a little bit larger.
They're called accessibility options because it's making it accessible for people to see — maybe people that have a disability, or are aging, or can't see as well, or whatever the case may be.
I'm on Google Chrome. What we're going to do is change some of the settings. If I go over to what is called the ellipsis, these three dots right here are called ellipses. If I click those three dots, it's kind of the universal sign of like "more" or something along those lines. If I click on this, I see that there's settings, which is a gear, another kind of universal symbol of settings. I can click on settings, and it brings me into the settings.
All I need to do is search for what I'm looking for, and I'm looking for accessibility. In fact, actually, I'm just going to select it over here — you could search for it, but I'm going to click on accessibility. And then here, now we see all of the accessibility options. So we're able to turn things on and off, like live captioning, to be able to compensate for some sort of disability we have, or some sort of something that we don't see as well, or whatever the case may be.
So this is something that is an option for us to be able to start changing those features, changing the way things look and feel, so that way we can better visualize or better see or better interpret the information that these different web pages are giving us.
Just to show you one other example, we're going to click on this start and take a look at Edge this time. So I'm going to go into Edge. It's got the same thing, this ellipsis up here, which we click, and it's got a drop-down menu, and we have settings. So just like Chrome so far. And same thing, accessibility, it's about in the same spot there. And we see these accessibility settings.
We can adjust one and see what it actually looks like. So maybe we want to change the page zoom to 125%, and now suddenly it's larger. So we're able to change how this looks and feels to compensate for anything that we might be struggling with.
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