Pixel Accessibility Features
If you caught one of our previous posts on Android Accessibility Features, you’ll remember that we talked about captions. But, we didn’t talk about one really amazing captions feature (yet) – live captions for phone calls!
We held off on talking about this feature in past posts as it’s unfortunately only available on the Pixel line of phones. But now is the time! This post will be dedicated to exploring some of the utterly amazing Accessibility features specific to the Pixel line of Google phones!
Live Captions for Phone Calls
With Live Captions on a Pixel phone, you can get captions of what the other person is saying, and type your responses to be read aloud to them!
Android Accessibility Article, Live Captions for Phone Calls
Magnification App
Need something magnified that isn’t on your screen? Perhaps you need to read some fine print, or can’t read the bus numbers on a bus stop sign? Maybe a sign is too far away to read, but you can’t get any closer (e.g., store hours for a store across the street). Or perhaps font size isn’t what it making something hard to read, but color contrast is the issue.
Google’s Magnifier App allows users to magnify text, apply color filters, and search, listen or copy text (through Google Lens).
Download the Magnifier App from the PlayStore
Quick Phrases
Do you love using your Google Assistant, but, sometimes get a little tired of, or sometimes forget to start by saying “Hey Google”? Well on the Pixel line of phones, you can set up Quick Phrases that allow you to complete tasks without having to first prompt Google.