What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 6

Welcome back to another episode of What’s New in Google Accessibility, a series where we share the latest product and feature updates that help make Google more accessible for everyone. In this episode, we’ll tell you about updates coming to products like Workspace, Maps, Android, Chrome + Chromebooks and more. #WhatsNewInGoogle #Accessibility #Google #a11y

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0:00 Introduction
0:30 Closed captions in Meet | Workspace
0:42 Pin messages in Meet | Workspace
1:00 Screen reader help center articles | Workspace
1:17 Text-free mode on Look to Speak | Android
1:38 Project Gameface | Android
2:13 Accessible places | Maps
2:56 Auracast attribute | Maps
3:25 Screen magnifier | Chromebook
3:47 Mouse cursor size | Chromebook
3:53 Turn off blinking text cursor | Chromebook
4:04 PDF Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | ChromeOS
4:19 Image descriptions | Chrome
4:37 Gaming for users with motor impairments | ChromeOS

Resources
Google Workspace user guide to accessibility: https://g.co/workspace/accessibility
Look to Speak: https://g.co/looktospeak
Project Gameface: https://g.co/android/gameface
Access & read PDFs with Optical Character Recognition (OCR): https://g.co/chromebook/pdfocr
Get image descriptions on Chrome: https://g.co/Chrome/imagedescriptions

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