How to use Alexa's accessibility features

Learn how Alexa can help you be productive, entertained, and better connected with friends and family.
Entertainment
Productivity
Shopping
Connecting

Entertainment

An Echo Show on a wooden desk shows the Equalizer feature settings.
Hearing

How to use the Equalizer

Fine tune the speakers to suit your needs and personal preferences.
On a table, an Echo Show displays the Captioning settings screen.
Hearing

How to use Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning converts the audio content of a video broadcast into subtitles.
A woman in a coffee shop reads from a Kindle e-reader.
Vision

How to have Alexa read your Kindle book

Let Alexa read your favorite Kindle book to you.
In a reading nook, a woman holds a Kindle e-reader and presses down the volume button on her Echo.
Hearing

How to enable Bluetooth pairing

Connect Echo to your Bluetooth-enabled devices.
On a kitchen counter, next to an Echo Dot, a coffee maker is plugged into a Smart Plug.
Mobility

How to use an Amazon Smart Plug

Use your voice to control lights, fans, coffee makers, and more.
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Productivity

An Echo Show device screen shows the VoiceView settings.
Vision

How to use VoiceView for Echo Show

Use gestures to navigate the device, while VoiceView reads aloud.
On a nightstand, an Echo Show displays the temperature with Alexa's response captioned.
Hearing

How to see Alexa's responses

See captions for Alexa's responses on supported Alexa-enabled devices.
On a kitchen counter, an Echo Show displays Chapter One of the audiobook version of Born A Crime.
Hearing

How to use Preferred Speaking Rate

Adjust Alexa's speaking rate to your preference.
An Echo Show screen shows a magnified time and temperature on a background of a tree branch at dusk.
Vision

How to use Screen Magnifier

Pan from side to side, or zoom in and out to enlarge items on the screen for improved visibility.
An Echo Show on a kitchen table shows three Good Morning Routines: an alarm, lights coming on, and brewing coffee.
Mobility

How to set up Alexa Routines

Make several things happen with a single request.
In a living room, a couple dances. An Echo Studio sits on a side table behind them.
Vision

How to adjust the volume of your Echo device

Adjust the volume of Alexa by voice or by touch.
At a kitchen table, a woman makes blueberry muffins. An Echo Dot sits on a cabinet.
Vision

How to enable a Request Sound

Receive an audible tone from Alexa each time you make a request.
A woman who is blind holds a phone up to her face.
Vision

How to have Alexa give shorter responses

When enabled, Alexa speaks less and may play a short sound instead of giving a voice response.
On a wooden desk next to a vase, an Echo Show displays the Tap to Alexa options screen.
Speech

How to interact with Alexa without speaking

Interact with Alexa by touch using on-screen tiles or on-screen keyboard.
Echo Show screen close up showing Reminders Menu. Friday, 8 a.m.: Join meeting. Jim’s Reminders: Ask Amy about camping.
Cognitive

How to create an Alexa Reminder to help stay on schedule

Stay on schedule with an Alexa reminder.
Laying on her bed and holding a Kindle e-reader, a woman talks to the Echo Dot sitting on her nightstand.
Speech

How to change your wake word

Select a new wake word to wake up your device.
Echo Show screen close up showing Routines Menu. Featured: Good night routine. Your Routines: Productivity (switched on).
Cognitive

How to create an Alexa Productivity Routine

Create an Alexa Productivity routine.
Echo Show screen close up showing Routines Menu. Featured: Good night routine. Your Routines: Breathing (switched on).
Cognitive

How to create an Alexa Breathing Exercise Routine

Create an Alexa Breathing exercise routine.
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Shopping

An Echo Show on a nightstand shows a shopping list: Milk, sugar, potato chips, sour cream.
Mobility

How to create Alexa Shopping Lists

Create and access a list on any Echo device, in the Alexa app, or in the Amazon Shopping app.
An Echo Show screen shows: "Your deliveries, arriving today, out for delivery" with an image of AA batteries.
Vision

How to track your Amazon orders

Track your Amazon orders and confirm your delivery date.
Echo Show screen: on a background of avocados, a caption reads "how many calories are in an avocado?"
Mobility

How to get product information

Check product information, prices, or discover good deals.
On a kitchen countertop, an Echo Show displays Alexa's top results for AA batteries.
Mobility

How to shop on Amazon with Alexa

Use Alexa to buy and reorder products on Amazon.ca.
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Connecting

A grandpa and his granddaughter use Drop In on an Echo Show Device. They both wave at the girl's mother on the screen.
Speech

How to call and message without speech on Echo devices with a screen

Calling and messaging without speech.
On the screen of an Echo Show using Drop In, a family of four smiles and waves. Facing the device is a smiling man.
Vision

How to use Echo devices like an intercom

Start an instant conversation between your compatible devices.
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