Chromebook’s new accessibility feature helps you disable the Trackpad easier

The accessibility disable trackpad flag spotted

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Published onJuly 9, 2024

published onJuly 9, 2024

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Chromebooks, known for their affordability, simplicity, and Chrome OS, have become increasingly popular and theirmarketshare continues to grow. To further improve user experience, Google is introducing a new accessibility feature for Chromebooks: the ability to disable the built-in trackpad. This feature will be implemented through a feature flag, allowing users to easily turn off the trackpad when it interferes with their experience by visiting accessibility settings.

How do I disable the trackpad in Chromebooks?

Right now, disabling the trackpad in Chromebooks is pretty complicated.

You need to visitchrome://flags, find and enablechrome://flags/#ash-debug-shortcuts, restart the Chromebook, and then use the shortcuts++Pand++Tto toggle the touchpad and touchscreen on or off.

Well, the great news is that Google will soon make this process a lot easier.

As thenew commitand flag spotted by us, Google will soon offer a new setting under Accessibility in Settings to disable the trackpad. It will first be available behind a flag calledAccessibility disable trackpadwhich, when enabled,adds a setting that allows the users to disable the built-in trackpad.

Accessibility: Add a flag for the disable trackpad feature, Google notes.

Why would I want to disable the Chromebook’s trackpad?

External mouse users:Many prefer the precision of a mouse, and disabling the trackpad eliminates accidental touches while using one.

Touchscreen users:Some users who prefer touchscreens find the trackpad accidentally interferes with their workflow.

Palm resters:For those who rest their palms on the Chromebook while typing, accidental trackpad touches can be frustrating. Disabling it solves this issue.

In addition to offering a new accessibility setting to disable the trackpad in ChromeOS, Chrome is gaining several new features including animproved Windows Hello sign-in experience,performance notifications,andHTTPS-First Balanced Mode. Google also plans todeprecate the data breach password leak warningsfeature.

What do you think about disabling the trackpad in Chromebooks? Let us know in the comments below.

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Chromebook’s new accessibility feature helps you disable the Trackpad easier

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Why would I want to disable the Chromebook’s trackpad?