At BETT 2023, Google previewed a handful of education features coming to Chromebooks this year. Notably, ChromeOS and the Chrome desktop browser are getting a Reading Mode.
Following Android last year, this Reading Mode is curiously accessed from the desktop browser’s side panel. It’s a new option in the dropdown menu that’s already home to Reading List and Bookmarks. It’s meant to reduce “distracting elements on the screen, like images and videos, to help you focus on a page’s primary content.”
Reading Mode appears side-by-side with the original page, and you can increase the width of the panel at any time. Several fonts are offered with the ability to increase/decrease text size, change the background color (light, dark, yellow, blue), and adjust line spacing/margins.