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Google is enhancing Android and Chrome accessibility with AI. TalkBack, Android's screen reader, now integrates Gemini, allowing users to ask questions about on-screen images and content. Expressive Captions gains a duration feature to better capture nuances in speech, including sound labels. Chrome improves PDF accessibility via OCR, enabling screen reader interaction with scanned documents. Page Zoom on Chrome for Android offers customizable text magnification without altering layout.

Prepared by Jonathan Pierce and reviewed by editorial team.