We’re committed to making sure people with disabilities can use Android and Pixel phones as easily and effectively as possible. Working together with the disability community, we’ve added accessibility features like:

• Live Caption uses AI to provide people with captions from audio content from across their phone and Chrome browser

• Guided Frame, a Pixel accessibility feature that helps people with blindness, low vision, and dexterity-related disabilities take selfies and group photos with more ease

• Pixel Call Assist, which helps users avoid long hold times, navigate phone tree menus, ignore the calls they don't want, and get better sound quality on the calls they do want

• Voice recognition technology that makes voice typing on a Pixel device in English nearly three times faster than tapping

• Live Transcribe, an Android feature that provides automatic captions in more than 70 languages to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing participate in conversations

• Lookout, an Android feature that helps people with visual impairments get descriptions of the physical world using their phone's camera and ask follow-up questions by voice or keyboard

• Reading mode on Android, a more accessible reading experience designed for and with people with low vision, blindness, and dyslexia

• Flash notifications on Android, which provide a visual notification so people who are deaf or hard of hearing don’t have to rely on vibration and can keep their phones at a distance

We’re developing tools that tap into the power of gesture-led communication to help people communicate, use technology, and reach their goals. We’re early on in this journey, but we’re excited to see what possibilities this new technology can unlock.

For example, Project Gameface is an open-source, hands-free gaming mouse that enables people to control a computer's cursor using their head movement and facial gestures, designed in collaboration with Lance Carr, a quadriplegic video game streamer. Another example is PopSign, a game developed by students from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology along with Google engineers and the Kaggle community. PopSign uses AI to help everyone – including Deaf children and their caregivers – become more confident at using sign language.

With Google Maps, our goal is to build a better, more helpful map for everyone, including the tens of millions of people worldwide who use wheelchairs. Since 2020, the Accessible Places feature in Google Maps has made it easier to identify whether a place has a wheelchair-accessible entrance, indicated by the wheelchair icon. More information – like wheelchair-accessible seating, parking, and restrooms – is also available, helping people plan visits with confidence.

As of 2023, we’re able to provide wheelchair accessibility information for more than 40 million businesses around the world. This work is made possible by more than 120 million Local Guides who’ve responded to our call to share accessibility information, as well as decades of advocacy by individuals and groups fighting for equal access for people with disabilities. Were it not for them, there would be far fewer accessible places for Google Maps to show.

With built-in accessibility features, Google for Education helps students and educators customize their learning tools and create inclusive learning environments so they can learn, teach, and collaborate with confidence. Products like Chromebooks, Classroom, and Assignments are designed to support the individual learning styles of everyone who uses them, including students with disabilities. Students and educators can customize their learning tools and create inclusive learning environments where they can learn, teach, and collaborate with confidence. Explore accessibility features and learning resources here.