Chromebooks Will Soon Get a New Docked Magnifier Accessibility Tool, Try Out Now | Linux Today

Chromebooks Will Soon Get a New Docked Magnifier Accessibility Tool, Try Out Now

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Marius Nestor
Mar 5, 2018

The new feature we’re talking about here is a docked magnifier tool that will be available from the accessibility settings of the Chrome OS operating system and promises to let you magnify the top section of your screen. Users will be able to choose between a 2x and 20x zoom level value. As you can see from the screenshot attached, the docked magnifier will make the entire top section of your screen a magnified zone with the zoom level chosen by the user, and the rest of the screen will have its normal state and zoom level, where you can control what’s displayed in the upper magnified zone.

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Marius Nestor

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