The increasing demand for reading text and viewing images on the phone screen makes many people visually impaired. Google Chrome has taken in customer input and announced a new update of Chrome that can zoom pages 300% to address this situation.
Google Chrome has just upgraded the page zoom feature to overcome the situation that many users have difficulty reading on the small screen of Android devices . With the improved feature, users can increase the size of text, images, videos, buttons, etc. on the web by up to 300% without affecting the original formatting of the page.
This feature is not yet built-in, however, users can download the Chrome beta on a phone or tablet to experience it first. To enable the feature, click on the ellipsis icon in the top right corner of the browser, click Settings>Accessibility, and then set the zoom level accordingly.
Google will save this setting for all sites, even those that block the feature. Previously, Google only allowed text zoom up to 200%.
Google also rolled out several updates, including custom annotations to Google Drive on Android. Users can now use their finger or stylus to write directly on top of PDFs to highlight important documents. This feature is even handier as users can also hide, undo, delete, or save a copy of the PDF with annotations.
Google will also add Meet noise filtering on many Android devices, and upgrade Fast Pair for headphones to automatically connect to Chrome OS once set up. At the same time, Google also added a spring and basketball theme to the Emoji Kitchen of the Gboard keyboard, more diverse emoji variations.
Aside from other minor features that have also been updated, Google has kept accessibility in mind when updating Chrome.