As distance learning took hold with the Covid-19 craze, Chromebooks became a must-have device for students Fortunately, Google's affordable laptops are about to become even more useful

In a blog post, Andy Russell, product manager for Chromebooks, revealed that Chromebooks will come with a number of new features and accessibility improvements this year However, none of them seem to be as important as screen recording

Russell writes "Teachers have long recorded classes to help students do homework and study for tests, but over the past year, it has become just as essential to virtual learning, which is why the latest Chromebook update in March incorporated screen recording tools into Chrome OS That's why

In other words, just like macOS, there will be an on-screen button that toggles between a menu of keyboard shortcuts or screenshot buttons; a closer look at the animation shared by Google (see below) shows that this menu opens a screenshot of a portion of the screen and selects a window Open a screenshot and select a window

Russell's blog post explains that 40 new Chromebooks will be available in 2021 and describes other new features Regarding accessibility, the ChromeVox screen reader tutorial will be improved and the ability to search menus will be added It will also add "voice switching, which automatically changes the screen reader's audio based on the language of the text"