Together with its Android replace for December, Google has launched a new app known as Studying Mode right this moment. It helps folks with visible imparities and dyslexia learn the content material on the display screen — particularly articles.
The newly launched app works on any gadget operating Android 9.0 or above. As soon as you put in it in your telephone, you’ll have to activate the toggle for the app beneath the Accessibility settings. This enables the app to have a floating button on the display screen on a regular basis, so you’ll be able to flip any app or webpage right into a extra accessible model.
You’ll have to allow shortcut for the app from Settings to make use of the app Picture Credit: Google
Studying Mode turns the content material on the present display screen into an easier format. It options controls for adjusting distinction, font kind, line area, and dimension. What’s extra, you’ll be able to ask it to learn out the content material on the display screen and management the playback pace. The app additionally means that you can shortly change the studying voice as effectively. Customers also can activate a toggle to have the app spotlight present textual content being learn by the voiceover function.
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Google already provides various accessibility instruments together with a screen reader with TalkBack and a built-in Braille keyboard. Because the title suggests, Studying Mode have been particularly designed to learn or hearken to lengthy textual content, equivalent to on-line articles. It isn’t meant to learn all the pieces that’s on the display screen like buttons and their functions