Thanks for this feedback. Question for you - what if a student needs to enable this feature to be able to take the test, though? Why would that invalidate the test? 

We can look into adding this into the admin console, but I'm simply curious. 

abodenha@, any idea who might be able to work on this change? 

This seems like it should be rolled into bug 724164.

Display and input team is looking at a revamp of hotkey handling. We can probably tackle this as part of that.

dtseng@ I thought there was already a policy to allow disabling of ChromeVox. Is that not the case?

I think there's already a policy for that: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/policy/resources/policy_templates.json?q=f:.*policy.*%5C.json&dr&l=7224

Looks like that policy can't be independently set on its own.

Hi,

Most of the students take the test without voice feature.  If we had to
ability to enable/disable the Chrome Vox  then we could do testing with
impaired students at a different time or day.   When the chrome vox is
accidently enabled it could invalidate a students test.

Derek

dkawamura@ there should be a setting in the admin console labeled "Turn off accessibility settings on sign-in screen upon logout."  If I'm reading the code correctly that should force ChromeVox to off.

Hi,

Ok, will try it and let you know.

Thanks,
Derek

Ok. I tried it.  On the sign in screen and when your logged into an account
you still enable the setting.  However, when you launch the Kiosk Air
Secure test it is disabled when the app launches and you can't enable it
during the test.  This is good.

Can you explain what this feature actually does on the chromebooks?

ChromeVox? It allows visually impaired users to use Chrome OS. https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7031755?hl=en

The option in the admin console does a blanket disable of accessibility features after signing out and in kiosk mode.

There is always a difficult balance of making these features easily available to those that need them while at the same time preventing them from getting in the way of users that don't.

Thank you!   I think this resolves our issue with the students enabling the
Chrome Vox keyboard shortcut during SBA testing.  Also, other feature that
might be accidently enabled too.