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

Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort shares today with us a new experimental feature that's coming to a Chromebook near you later this year and it's now available for public testing.

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.

"This new feature basically makes the top section of your screen a heavily magnified zone," said François Beaufort on a recent Google+ post. "Give it a try today by searching for "docked magnifier" in Chrome OS accessibility settings and enable it. Note that you can pick a docked zoom level value between 2x and 20x."

As you can see from the screenshot attached, the docked magnifier will make the entire top section of ...