New accessibility options
Partaking with academic content material on-line is important for studying — however a variety of internet content material is not thought-about accessible. In actual fact, based on a Google inner examine, 360 billion PDFs (making up 12% of all PDFs) do not work with display screen readers at the moment. Now, with the assistance of AI, a built-in Chrome browser characteristic on Chromebooks will assist display screen reader customers extract textual content from PDFs utilizing Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We’re bringing the identical performance to ChromeOS.
Studying mode can also be getting new options within the subsequent yr, like built-in OCR, learn aloud and line focus, the place ChromeOS will spotlight the strains because the textual content is learn aloud.
We’re including new, natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) voices to ChromeOS, too, which may enhance studying comprehension (Cunningham, 2011). You’ll discover these voices in Textual content-to-speech voice settings on ChromeOS within the coming months.
