Help every student learn how they learn best
With built-in accessibility features and generative AI capabilities, Google for Education can help students and educators customize their learning tools and create inclusive learning environments so they can study, teach, and collaborate with confidence.
Display and Vision
Features that enable high-contrast, screen readers and dictation help people who are blind or low-vision access information and collaborate.
Google Workspace for Education Features
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Type with voice
Write and edit content by speaking instead of typing across Workspace tools like Google Docs.
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Screen reader
Google Workspace tools are optimized for popular screen readers so you can navigate content and collaborate.
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Braille display
Connect a braille display to read and edit files on Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings.
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Add alt text
Add alt text that vividly describes images, drawings, and graphics for those using screen readers.
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Color inversion
Set dark mode in Gmail, or use color inversion mode in your operating system or on your browser.
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Dark mode for Google Classroom
Combat eye strain with dark mode on the Google Classroom app – essential for extended studying and students with visual sensitivities.
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Audio Overviews in NotebookLM
Quickly turn class materials or even Deep Research reports into engaging audio discussions led by two AI hosts, and ask follow-up questions by voice.
Chromebook features
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Select-to-speak
Choose specific lines or sections of the screen to be read aloud.
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Reading mode
Reading mode on Chrome lets you enlarge text for easier reading. With read aloud, you can choose from over 100 of Google’s high-quality natural voices across 29 languages.
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PDF reader
PDF Optical Character Recognition (OCR) uses AI to extract text from PDFs on the web and reads it aloud for students.
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ChromeVox
Navigate content in the built-in screen reader with shortcut keys.
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Screen magnifier
Make on-screen content easier to see by making up to 20 times bigger.
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Dictation
Dictate anywhere you might otherwise type, like the browser search bar or Google Docs.
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Cursor highlight
Make your cursor easy to spot by adding a colored ring around it, or change the color of the cursor.
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Color inversion
Invert screen and text colors for sharper contrast and easier reading.
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Color correction
Allows users to apply and adjust color filters or grayscale to support individuals with color blindness, including protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia.
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Playwrite font guides
Provides visual aids like guideline markers to help primary school students learn handwriting. Customized for 40 countries and counting.
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Magnifier following spoken text
Users with low vision can hear text read with Select-to-Speak or Chromevox and follow along as the spoken text is magnified on screen.
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Blinking cursor setting
Turns off, or slows down, the blink rate of the blinking text cursor to help people with photosensitive seizure triggers or cognitive differences.
Motor and dexterity
People with motor disabilities and dexterity impairments can enter information using touch and voice settings.
Google Workspace for Education Features
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Make it easier to do everyday tasks with keyboard shortcuts and even remap your own shortcuts within applications like Gmail.
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Dictation
Dictate anywhere that you would otherwise type, like in Google Docs, your browser search bar, or Google Slides speaker notes.
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Gemini Live
Students with motor impairments can use natural voice conversation to show their work, ask questions, and dictate assignments.
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Gemini note taking in Google Meet
Generate meeting summaries and lesson notes for students who need to review material at their own pace.
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Chatting with Gemini
Students with limited fine motor skills can use voice input instead of extensive typing. They can verbally ask questions, dictate essays, brainstorm ideas, and do research more independently.
Chromebook features
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On-screen keyboard
Type or handwrite text and add images to files, documents, and emails with an onscreen keyboard.
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Touchpad settings
Customize your touchpad by enabling automatic clicks, tap-to-drag, or tap-to-click functionality.
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Keyboard settings
Access quick functionality with one tap using action buttons like the Search key or the Refresh key.
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Sticky keys
Use keyboard shortcuts one key at a time or in a sequence when you turn on Sticky Keys.
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Face control
Navigate your screen with your facial expressions and head movements.
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Switch Access
Use Switch Access to scan the items on your screen until you use a switch to make a selection.
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Touch input
On touchscreen Chromebooks, tap the screen to move the cursor and enter text.
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Tap to click and tap dragging
Click and drag with a mouse, touchpad, or keyboard without having to press down.
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Mouse keys
Students with limited dexterity and manipulation can move the mouse pointer around with the keyboard.
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Slow keys
Introduce a delay when registering keystrokes.
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Bounce keys
Filter out accidentally repeated key presses.
Cognitive and spoken feedback
Tools that enable students to adjust sensory inputs and outputs, such as voice control, verbal feedback, and color shifts help people with learning and cognitive differences and disabilities access information
Google Workspace for Education Features
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Type with voice
Type and edit by speaking in Google Docs or in Google Slides speaker notes.
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Captions
Display the speaker’s words in real time in Google Slides, Meet and Drive.
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Transcription
With a paid edition of Google Workspace for Education, get an automated meeting transcript to help people with limited working memory or those who need more processing time.
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Note Taking
With a separate note taking application like Google Keep, turn images into text, and organize information into color coded notes.
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Auto features
Use features like autocorrect, autocompletion, spelling and grammar checking, along with smart compose and smart reply.
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Chips in Docs
With chips and building blocks, get help organizing information quickly, or add voting, timer and stopwatch chips to have an all in one experience.
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Google Fonts
Add fonts like Andika, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible to Docs, Sheets and Slides for better readability.
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Google Meet pinning
Help students focus with Google Meet pinning, which allows them to view just the teacher and hide other participants.
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Gemini for Education
Summarize long texts for students who find it overwhelming, adapt materials to different reading levels, and even ask Gemini to generate audio-friendly scripts or summaries of lessons for students with visual impairments or for auditory learners.
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Video Overviews in NotebookLM
Organize scattered notes and dense documents into clear, intuitive visual presentations to support students with reading disabilities. Teachers can instantly create engaging and accessible lessons from existing source materials for visual learners.
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Listen to documents
Included with the paid Google AI Pro for Education add-on, Gemini in Google Docs lets students listen to documents with clear, customizable, natural-sounding voices and adjustable playback speeds to aid comprehension.
Chromebook features
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On-screen keyboard
Type or handwrite text and add images to files, documents, and emails using the on-screen keyboard.
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Select-to-speak
Choose specific lines or sections of the screen to be read aloud or read all the on-screen content.
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Dictation
Dictate instead of type across Workspace tools like Google Docs, Google Slides, and your search bar.
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Focus mode
Let your to-do list and Google Calendar work together to find time for you to get things done. When it’s time to work, your Chromebook minimizes notifications so you can stay focused.
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Reading mode
Open web pages in a reader-view panel within Chrome browser so you can resize and customize text as you need.
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Note taking
With a separate note taking application like Cursive on ChromeOS, capture, edit and organize notes, or pin your favorite apps.
Audio and captions
For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, or need help concentrating, manyGoogle Workspace and Chromebook features have options to automatically generate captions, or add human generated caption files to video.
Google Workspace for Education Features
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Closed captions
Turn on captions in Google Meet and Google Slides to view subtitles as people speak during a meeting, or add caption tracks to a Drive file.
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Gemini notes/transcripts in Google Meet
With a paid edition of Google Workspace for Education, get an automated meeting transcript to help people with limited working memory or those who need more processing time.
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Multi-pin in Meet
Use multi-pin to view a presenter, presentation, and their sign language interpreter at the same time.
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Live translated captions
Using Gemini in Google Meet with the paid Google AI Pro for Education add-on, users can stay engaged with live translated captions during conversations, with support for more than 70 languages, including offline support for English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Chromebook features
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Mono audio
Never miss content by playing the same audio through all speakers.
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Live caption
Generate real-time and accurate captions on your Chrome Browser.
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Flash notifications
Highlights notifications by briefly tinting the entire screen with a user-selected color to make sure you don’t miss information.
Learn more about Google’s accessibility tools and features
Google Workspace for Education
Use built-in features to aid learning and comprehension
Chromebooks
Access and personalize custom settings across devices
Google’s Commitment
At Google, we’re committed to making the world’s information universally accessible for everyone. We believe in building products with and for the disability community, so that we can identify the ways that our technology can be truly helpful.
Help all students by minimizing learning barriers
Give every student the opportunity to learn with confidence, actively participate in class, and bring their ideas to the table.
Promote student agency and independent learning
Help all students achieve their learning goals by providing them with support that meets their unique needs.
Accelerate learning with intuitive and inclusive tools
Provide students and educators with accessibility tools and features that are easy to customize and use.
Accessibility is part of our DNA
Download this quick guide to our built-in, easy-to-manage accessibility tools that work seamlessly across Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks to share the power of personalized learning experience and the difference it can make for teachers and students worldwide.
