Follow these steps to enable various accessibility options on Nintendo Switch 2, such as button mapping and text to speech.
Ensure that your console has the most recent update installed, as some of these features are added via system updates.
Select the feature you would like to enable and follow the steps.
This feature reads out on-screen text in the HOME Menu, the album and in System Settings. In addition to on-screen text, the feature reads out information that assists with operations, such as the cursor's position. You can also set different voice types, reading speeds and volume levels.
The following system languages support this feature (some may require a system update): US English, Canadian French, Latin American Spanish, UK English, German, European French, European Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean.
Note: This function is available starting at the initial menu during first-time setup if the console is running system version 22.0.0 or later.
On the language selection screen, hold the Y Button to enable text to speech.
Select a language that supports text to speech and continue through the first-time setup process.
If the console is running an earlier system version, a system update can be performed once an internet connection has been saved during the first-time setup process. After completing the system update and reaching the prompt to start a system transfer, you can hold the Y Button to enable text to speech.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
You can toggle Convert Text to Speech on or off and adjust the following settings for it:
Voice type: Choose between two types.
Text to speech speed: Slide to increase or decrease the speed at which text is read.
Text to speech volume: Slide to increase or decrease the volume at which text is read.
GameChat includes speech to text and text to speech features. With speech to text, voices of other members in the chat session can be displayed as text. With text to speech, you can send text entered on a keyboard as audio to other members of a GameChat session.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
Select Change Speech ⇔ Text During GameChat.
Select the user you want to change GameChat settings for.
The following options can be changed:
Display speech as text: Toggle on to transcribe all users' speech into a chat box at the side of your main screen. Also includes text to speech messages.
Language: Change the language that speech to text is converting (defaulting to your system language). This feature will only recognise speech in and convert speech to text in the language that is set here.
Convert text to speech: Toggle on to convert GameChat text messages into audible speech for all users.
Voice type: Choose between two types.
Language: Change the language that text to speech is converting (defaulting to your system language). This language setting also determines which keyboard is used when sending text messages in GameChat.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
The following options can be changed:
Text size: Select default, large or maximum text size.
Bold text: Toggle on to make text appear thicker.
High contrast: Toggle on to adjust the colour of various menus to increase contrast with other screen elements, such as making grey colours darker.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
Enable Zoom. You can then press the HOME Button quickly twice to enlarge the screen, or again to stop zooming in.
While the screen is enlarged, you can move the focused area of the screen with the Left Stick or Right Stick, press the HOME Button to lock the screen where it's currently zoomed in and use the X and Y Buttons to adjust the level of zoom. In handheld or tabletop mode, you can also use two fingers on the touch screen and pinch to adjust the zoom level.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
Select Change Display Colours. The following options can be selected:
Default: The standard screen colours will be shown.
Invert colours: Fully invert the colours displayed on the screen (e.g. white turns to black).
Greyscale: All colours will be changed to greyscale.
Button mapping can be changed for the following controllers:
Joy-Con 2 controllers
Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controllers
Nintendo Switch 2 charging grips (GL/GR Buttons)
Joy-Con controllers and Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility, then Button Mapping.
Pick the controller you want to change, then select Change.
Only controllers that are currently connected will be displayed.
The GL and GR Buttons on the Joy-Con 2 charging grip and Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller can only be mapped from Quick Settings while you are playing a game.
Select the button you want to change the mapping for and select which button to map to.
Once you have finished making any desired changes, select Save.
If you want to return the button mapping to the defaults, you can select Reset from the Button Mapping menu later. This will not delete any registered presets.
Note: You can also enable Change Button Mapping from Quick Settings to add this option to the Quick Settings menu, accessed by holding the HOME Button.
You can save up to five button mappings as presets on each controller and swap between them freely.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility, then Button Mapping.
Pick the controller you want to save a preset for.
Select Save as a Preset to save the current button mapping settings, or select Load a Preset to change to a different preset.
Open System Settings from the HOME Menu.
Select Accessibility.
You can toggle Mono Audio on or off.