Google TV on Android 14 adds quite a few new features

Google TV just received the beta for Android 14 this week, and it adds more than a few new features to the platform.

All of the new features available in the Android 14 beta for Google TV that have been discovered so far are focused on accessibility. Bringing what are likely going to be some much-needed improvements for lots of users. Google even makes it easier to find and enable or disable these features by giving ‘Accessibility’ its own menu on the main settings page.

All of the new features mentioned (via 9To5Google) will be located in here. So if you’re looking for them, simply head to settings, then navigate to accessibility. From there, you’ll find all the new features that are part of the new update. There’s also a new icon for power and energy. It’s a small change but it is there.

Android 14 for Google TV new features

We’ve already mentioned that Accessibility is now a main menu, but there are a handful of other accessibility features worth pointing out that have been found so far.

Color correction settings

First up is the color correction settings. You can toggle this on if you want to use it. In doing so, you can swap between four different options. There’s a grayscale option, and then there are three colors modes. These include Deuteranomaly, Portanomaly, and Tritanomaly. Both the first two color modes are slightly different color corrections of red-green. While the Tritanomaly is a color correction of blue-yellow colors.

Audio descriptions

In addition to color correction settings, there’s also a feature for audio descriptions. Turning this on will read descriptions of what’s happening on-screen to you. But only for supported content. There’s not really a definitive list on what movies and shows are supported, so this is something you’ll need to check on a case by case basis.

Text scaling

There’s now an option to adjust the size of text and changing this value will adjust the size for the entire system UI. If you have a little harder time with reading smaller text, especially from farther away as a TV would be, enable this and adjust to your liking. There are options for default which is 100%, or you can flip it down to small which is 85%, large which is 115%, and largest which is 130%. Nothing to crazy here for text sizes. But the extra scaling should help.

Bold text

Pretty self-explanatory here. Enabling this toggle makes all text bold system wide. This more or less goes hand-in-hand with the text scaling feature.